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Fishing is a story . . .
This third installment of the Fish and Film series highlights the technical aspects of good, adaptive nymphing. It’s a look at a full morning of fishing riffles, runs and flats, while making the necessary and natural changes to find fish.
There are many adjustments along the way. And I comfortably switch between pure tight line tactics and tight line to the indicator style, along with weight adjustments, using both beadhead flies and additional split shot.
I also use just three patterns all morning, changing only the size of the stonefly and then swapping it out for a Green Weenie toward the end. The flies matter. But the way I fish the flies matters most. Oh this day, every trout but the last one ate the nymph in the strike zone — not on the drop and not on the bottom.
Trout responded most in deeper sections around overhanging limbs. And it made me wonder if fishing an ant pattern on the surface might have produced just as well.
This is a very different video than the first two installments of this Fish and Film series. This one is more technical, simply because that was the story for the morning. I also had fun learning to illustrate key points with the lane and indicator overlays in editing. These are good tools that I can use in the future.
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Domenick Swentosky
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Hi Dom. This was great. I enjoyed the technical spin you had on today’s video and learned a great deal by simply watching how fluid your movements were and the strategies you applied throughout the day on the various water types. I found myself taking copious notes like I was back in the classroom. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and angling experiences, as well as the bond you share with Riv. Best!
Hey now. Thanks, man.
it was good seeing you do the stuff you talk about on the podcasts, etc. and I like being able to see the water type for the various techniques. One request is show the fly’s rig more. I like you put the setup in text but it would be nice to see it as well.
Thanks. What do you mean, specifically? Illustrations? Show it on video? I might. But I’ve learned that everything is a trade off in time. These videos are already pretty long. And taking the time to show the rig again is another minute or two at least. Troutbitten is a resource that continues to build on what has come before it. So I leave all those article/video/podcast links in the right spots of the video, and you can dig into the details of whatever you like. Honestly, I don’t want to bore the average viewer with another run through of what the Mono Rig is, because I’ve already done that, and I link to the dedicated resources with diagrams, formulas and things in great detail.
Cheers.
Dom
Another wonderful and informative video, Dom! Fun to see that you have adopted using a wading staff!
Cheers!
Richard
Been that way for a long time. Cheers.
https://troutbitten.com/2019/05/14/what-about-the-wading-staff-thoughts-on-choosing-and-carrying-a-wading-stick/
https://troutbitten.com/2022/06/01/video-the-only-way-to-carry-a-wading-staff/
Really enjoyed it, there is something different with these fish/film videos (in a good way) can’t put my fingers on it.
I mean we’re not watching you catch a fish ever 1-2 casts like some other utube channels (not going to name any)
It feels like we’re there hanging out with you while you’re fishing.
Cheers
Thanks, Tom. That’s a great compliment. That’s exactly what I’m going for.
Thanks so much for caring about that.
Cheers.
Dom
Tom is right. What’s special about this video is your humility and honesty. There are so many videos out there in which an editing break is followed, almost inevitably, by a hooked fish. Your video, on the other hand, lets us accompany you on your successes and failures. It’s the latter, especially, that I find moving, and that make me trust the former.
On a technical note, I think that a major contribution of Troutbitten is the tight line to the indicator idea. It has saved many a day for me.