In this great episode of “Master Class Monday”–and for the next eight weeks–Dave and Amelia Jensen will walk you through every aspect of fishing a spinner fall, from gear choices to presentation to hook sets. Spinner falls . . .
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Master Class Monday: How to Catch Trout from Tailouts
Today’s Master Class Monday video by Dave and Amelia Jensen is the seventh installment in an 11-part series on how to read trout water. Here, Dave explains how to fish tailouts–those shallow, slow stretches at the bottom of a pool or before a change in river features. Trout will risk being exposed in such shallow water if … Continue reading “Master Class Monday: How to Catch Trout from Tailouts”
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: Understanding Rise Forms During a Spinner Fall
In this great episode of “Master Class Monday”–part of a 10-part series on fishing during a spinner fall–Dave and Amelia Jensen help you to understand rise forms, so you know which fish are feeding on spinners, as well as which trout are the really big . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Find Trout In Eddies
Today’s Master Class Monday video by Dave and Amelia Jensen is the eighth installment in an 11-part series on how to read trout water. Here, Dave explains why trout love eddies–for the current break, . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Catch Trout from Corner Pools
Today’s Master Class Monday video by Dave and Amelia Jensen is part of their great series on how to read trout water. Here, Dave explains how a corner pool in a river creates some great trout lies. He breaks down the hydrology and . . .
Read MoreVideo: Dave’s Double-Digit Brown Trout
Once a brown trout gets above a foot long, it turns into a voracious predator. And there’s nothing more universal to cast and present to big brown trout than the simplest of trout flies, the Woolly Bugger! In this video, Amelia and I . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Set the Hook on Spinner-Eating Trout
In the seventh installment of their 10-part series on how to fish a spinner fall, Dave and Amelia Jensen show how important line control is to setting the hook on trout eating small spinners. If you throw your rod skyward too quickly, ripping the line and . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Fish a Spinner Fall, Introduction
Spinner falls present anglers with wonderful opportunities to catch rising trout, but these egg-layer events can also offer plenty of challenges. The flies are tiny, the light is usually love, the presentations can be difficult, and so on. In this great episode of . . .
Read MoreMoment of Thrill 03.23.21
Fly fishers describe a hard-fighting fish as being “hot,” and occasionally can take you by surprise with it’s hard runs and crazy jumps. This rainbow trout goes ballistic from the moment it is hooked, requiring the angler to use all . . .
Read MorePodcast: Why did I miss that fish? With Dave Jensen
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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