swinging wet flies is a lot of fun it's a different kind of fishing and the conditions
have to be right
[Music] we want kind of lower clearer water and you want some nice uniform current we
have a nice uniform riffle here and if you see the occasional rise that's even better
but swinging a wet fly is a great thing to do in the wind because you're not doing any
false casting your line is on the water the wind's not blowing your indicator or your
dry fly around you don't have to deal with throwing a big heavy streamer you just pick
up those lightly weighted wet flies put them back down and let them swing in the current
it's a it's a very relaxing fun way to fish so I like to fish two wet flies at the same
time I find that two wet flies works better I think that maybe the site of two flies swinging
in front of the fish excites them or attracts their attention anyway I always go with two
flies usually a bigger fly and a slightly smaller fly so what I do is I've got some
4X tipping here and I'm going to take another piece about six inches about maybe six eight
inches above where I'm going to tie on my lower fly and I'm going to tie a surgeon's
not
ties the second piece on with the triple surgeon's knot
test your knot and then you're going to cut the upper strand off that's your tag in so
you're going to just cut that off
put that extra piece of tip it somewhere where you can dispose of it later inside your waders
or something in a pocket and then you want that you want that dropper to be I don't know
four inches long you don't want it too long because it'll tangle that's probably about
right so I'll cut that back a little bit oops shouldn't have used my teeth and so I'm going
to put one fly usually the bigger fly on the lower piece of tippet and a smaller fly on
the on the upper piece of tippet so they'll swing together in the current I'm going to
use two soft tackles they're just wet flies without wings and I will pick a bigger one
for kind of an attractor we'll try this one here and then I'll put a smaller one on below
it
so I got this bigger one and it's kind of olive because there's some little Olive May
flies on the water olive yellow and then the smaller one is also going to be Olive
but you can see that you know one's quite a bit bigger than the other and give the fish
a choice and again generally I put the smaller fly on the upper piece of tippet [Music] so
you can make this wet fly swinging as easy as you want and just throw it across the current
and just let it swing on a tight line you don't have to do anything just throw it out
there and let it swing around behind you maybe make a couple strips at the end and pick it
up and throw it back so you can see in a wind like this how nice that is just make one quick
cast put it back out there and let it swing in the current now you probably want to make
it a little bit more complicated so what most people do and I'd advise it is make a cast
and then mend Upstream that men just a quick flip of the line gives those flies a chance
to sink and then as the line comes around tight they rise up toward the surface and
hopefully interest the fish
don't false cast when you're fishing wet flies like this especially on a windy day like today
you got two flies on there the chance for tangling you don't need to false cast you
don't need to dry the fly off keep your cast short just pick it up and put it back down
the one thing you want to remember when swinging wet flies is if a fish takes the fly Downstream
of you on a tight line do not set the hook let the fish hook itself and it will if you
try to set the hook you'll often pull it out of their mouth
there's a spot what
like I said you're gonna lose a lot of them now you can change the angle of fishing soft
tackles like this if you want you could throw the Flies directly Upstream then you're going
to have to watch the tip of your floating line and if it straightens set the hook and
then you can let it swing around and let it tighten and so those flies have had a chance
to sink a little bit more if you have really slow current you probably want to throw directly
across the stream that gives your flies a little bit more swing if you have super fast
current then you probably want to angle a little bit more Downstream because you don't
want that really abrupt fast swing at the end so you can control the swing by the angle
that you cast and also by mending line another thing you want to remember is that you want
to follow the fly with the tip of your Rod just keep the tip of the rod pointed at the
fly you don't want a big angle between the fly and the tip of the rod you want always
pointed and just follow along with the tip of the rod generally when you're swinging
wet flies you want to work Downstream just makes it easier you cover new water each cast
it doesn't really make most of the time we like to fish off stream we fish dry fly fish
Nims we're fishing Upstream we like to work Upstream but when swinging wet flies you want
to get up to the head of the run or the riffle or whatever and then work down through it
because you're going in that direction when you're fishing Downstream like this you're
going to miss a lot of fish especially little fish they're going to slap at the fly and
because you're directly Upstream you may not hook them so don't worry if you don't hook
every fish in fact you won't you'll get little bumps you'll get Taps you'll see a swirl you'll
eventually hook them but don't wig out if you don't hook every fish that takes your
flies if this is nice water for swinging wet flights perfect speed oh there's one whoa
oh it looks like a brown too
nice
when you're playing a fish like this decent sized fish you want to try to keep that fish
Upstream of you if you can and then you can just get his head up lead him down into the
net and and bingo
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thank you