When you are fishing to a trout near the tailout of a pocket or small tool, you’ve got a presentation problem: the faster current of the tailout will pull on your line, causing the fly to drag. In many situations, that drag is enough to stop a trout from eating your fly.
In this great episode of “Master Class Monday,” Dave and Amelia Jensen demonstrate the best ways to avoid dragging flies. The first step involves stealth: you’ve got to get as close as you can. Then, you use your rod tip to keep as much of the line as possible off the water. The results speak for themselves.
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Probably NZ, where fish that big an be common in small streams. Some of the biggest fish in somewhat larger streams feed in tail outs, and at times they can be hard to approach unseen. On the other hand, NZ has few predators, so the Hank Patterson casting method has been known to work at times.
Must be those east coast stream.
Nice one… at 0:25 there was a trout i think, turning back…. beautiful explanations
Guys Love that last Take
Such a big trout could be caught in such a clear stream!Do you know maxcatch fishing?
thats a big fish in a Small Area
Freakin Jensen is a beast
Where were y’all fishing? And I would like to see a tutorial like this in the streams of the Appalachian Mountains
FOUL >>>>> 20+ inch trout in a 1-foot stream I call foul, they were planted last night by Orvis