Following up on last week’s post covering different streamer fishing techniques, here are some specific tips to help you get the most out of your time fishing streamers this fall. Keep your rod tip low when retrieving. This will help keep your fly deep. No fish wants to see its pretty swimming up towards the…
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Advice on Streamer Fishing Techniques for Fall
In my opinion, fishing streamers is one of the most fun ways to catch trout. I love how voracious and un-trout like they act. Usually when trout fishing (outside of Alaska), the current is bringing our flies to the fish. When streamer fishing it is the opposite, we are triggering something aggressive inside the trout…
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Timeless Tips: Fishing Tandem Streamer Rigs
While targeting trout, anglers tend to fish multiple flies. Fishing 2 or even 3 nymphs under an indicator has been practiced for years. Fish one large attractor pattern followed by a smaller more specific imitation. This covers multiple food sources and depths in the water column. Next in the world of tandem rigs came the…
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Timeless Tips: When Fishing Streamers, Keep your Rod Tip Down!
When stripping streamers from a boat, I have received some confused looks when people see that I have my rod tip completely submerged in the water. I do this for 3 different reasons. Keep the fly deep while retrieving. When stripping your fly back to you, if you have your rod tip high, the retrieval…
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