Swing, hit, and miss–why did you not connect with that fish? Did it just miss your fly? Did you strike too soon? Did you strike too late? Or did the fish refuse your fly even though it looked like a take? Dave Jensen . . .
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Video Pro Tips: How to Know When to Change Flies
Here’s an information-packed videos from Dave and Amelia of Jensen Fly Fishing, in which they discuss their thought processes for changing flies when they’re casting to a specific fish. . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Fish a Nymph Off a Gravel Shelf
When you’re not catching anything on a dry fly in the pool below a gravel shelf, it’s time to switch over to a nymph under an indicator. In this great video from Jensen Fly Fishing, Dave Jensen shows how he rigs the . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Fish Up to a Rising Trout
When you spot a rising trout, your first impulse may be to try to catch it immediately, but that’s not always the correct decision. In this great episode of “Master Class Monday” from Jensen Fly Fishing, Amelia Jensen shows you how . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Fish a Seam at the Head of a Pool
The head of a pool often features an inside seam that separates the main current and an eddy. Trout love to set up inside that stream, where they can relax in the eddy but have access to the steady supply of food drifting along . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Fish a Corner Pool, Part II
Corner pools always look inviting to anglers because they provide everything a big trout needs: depth, overhead cover, and a steady supply of food. Last week, Dave Jensen explained how to fish the lower part of the the pool below a . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Mondays: How to Fish a Corner Pool, Part I
Corner pools always look inviting to anglers because they provide everything a big trout needs: depth, overhead cover, and a steady supply of food. In this great episode of “Master Class Monday,” Dave . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Mondays: How to Fish a Streamer in a Shelving Riffle
A “shelving riffle”–where fast broken water dumps into a deeper hole–offers everything a trout loves: a steady supply of oxygenated water and food, cover from predators, and a place to site out of the main current. In this . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: Always Trust Your Spidey Senses
Here’s another great video tip from Dave Jensen of Jensen Fly Fishing. Sometimes, when you’re out on the water, you see a spot where the just has to be a trout. It’s too good a lie for there not to be. But you can’t see anything there. Instead of moving to . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Fish Rock Shelves in a River
Today’s Master Class Monday video by Dave and Amelia Jensen is the final installment in a series on how to read trout water. Here, Dave talks about those stretches of river where the water flows over bare rock, in the form of shelves . . .
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