Back before there was a mad rush to simply try to catch one and post it online to show your ‘friends’, good anglers would take the time to do a little observing before simply barging in and wading deep and casting far. Observation of water, or waters, is sorely lacking in many anglers, and, like […]
As long as anglers have pursued Steelhead mending the line has been part of the process of presentation. Now one could dig up some encyclopedia reference to the term ‘mend’ and although it won’t say anything about fishing, It will describe the need ‘to fix or repair’ something. So this begs the question, ‘how does […]
The “Greased Line” presentation is a cast with a sub-surface fly. The caster mends the line in order to control the speed and depth of the fly as it is presented broadside. So what does this mean to the fish? It sees the body and not the back-end of a fly. If I am wrong, then […]