Troutbitten
Troutbitten
Domenick Swentosky
Dry Fly Skills #1 -- When and Why
58 minutes Posted Jul 28, 2024 at 10:00 pm.
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Season twelve begins. It’s a seven-part skills series dedicated to dry fly fishing. My friend, Matt Grobe, joins me to build the framework — a method and a system — for presenting dry flies to trout.In this first episode, we ask when and why we fish dry flies. What’s the reason we might choose to fish dries over streamers, wets or nymphs?We argue that dry flies are the heart and soul of fly fishing. The visual aspect is fun and exciting. And the pleasures of top water fishing should not be mi...