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Episode 6 Josh Miller
Continuing the Flyside Chat series of tenkara and fly fishing conversations with Josh Miller of TroutYeah Guide Services, member of Fly Fishing Team USA and coach of the US Youth Fly Fishing Team.
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The idea behind the Flyside Chats
After 2020 I’ve been feeling a bit disconnected from people that I know in the fly fishing world. I’m not the most social of anglers and I do a lot of fishing by myself. But there are a few folks that I get out with and I didn’t get to see most of them in 2020. I didn’t make any trips out of state and I didn’t get out nearly as much as I would have liked to.
So it is with some optimism I am looking forward to 2021 and the fishing that comes with it. Flyside Chats is a going to be series of videos where I try to reconnect with some tenkara and fly fishing folks that I know and hopefully with some new people too. I want to talk to people about what they’re looking forward to exploring in the season(s) ahead.
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Thanks Anthony!
Great interview.
I have been thinking a lot about your comments about “dead water”, as its typically areas I avoided and hiked beyond. I use to think of it as areas not worth wasting my time in.
Wondering if you could provide any direction about resources to assist learning more about this, as I am unsure about how to approach dead water, both equipment and technique.
Jason,
So, fish move around of course and won’t always be in that type of water and in different types of streams (spring creeks vs. freestone) fish may behave differently … In the limestone streams that I fish from time to time I’m finding fish in that kind of water pretty often and it’s often worth investigating. And then in the mountain streams when flows get lower in summer and fall much of the water becomes very placid and slow moving.
So, it’s something I’m still very much in the process of improving but when I’m up against that kind of water I’m going to be using some sort of suspension nymphing tactic with some sort of floating strike indicator, floating the sighter, or dry-dropper rigging. If you haven’t tried dry-dropper before, it’s simply using both a dry fly and a nymph. It allows you to get nice long drifts in slow water, where you’re nymph would otherwise sink to the bottom without much drift.
Here’s a post I wrote with some diagrams of how I like to rig it. https://castingaround.anthonynaples.com/2019/07/spring-creek-edges-hoppers-and-droppers-and-some-other-thoughts
I don’t have any posts about floating the sighter yet but here’s a video where Josh Miller talks about it https://youtu.be/RuyvOSyesIs
I’ll have to do some research and see what other online resources I can find a post a follow up reply for you