Four Moments to Shoot Line

[@nickjackson5360]

Loving the professionalism and quality of these videos. Well done guy's!!

[@Troutbitten]

Thanks. That's kind.

[@mikescofield]

Best explanation I've heard about shooting line, Dom. Thanks. Now I need to practice.

[@Troutbitten]

Right on

[@JohnKarcher-s3f]

Great Info - easy to understand

[@Troutbitten]

Nice. Glad to hear that.

[@bubbas63]

Thanks for the explanation on shooting the line makes alot of sense.

[@Troutbitten]

Right on.

[@keewaydin33]

Love the blooper reel!

[@wulgar9648]

Another awesome video full of wisdom. Bloopers always make me laugh at the end. Just a quality production. Finally got that sweet hat. Thanks man.

[@Troutbitten]

Thank you.

[@Jon626]

Great stuff Dom. Warm morning and cold water eh? The bloopers were great haha!

[@Troutbitten]

Right on. There's a lot of cold water around, if you know where to look. We have fun with the videos. Cheers. Dom

[@thomastero4662]

I do a lot of saltwater fishing and shooting on the backcast is a great way to deal with casting into the wind. It really loads the rod for the forward cast and lessens the desire to apply power too early and ending up with a tailing loop. Great video, you make me look at things differently.

[@Troutbitten]

Nice

[@livinginorangevilleontario4246]

You should do a series for beginner fly fishers. People who are brand new and don’t know the basics or any terminology! I’m one of those lol but I love the content regardless

[@Troutbitten]

I hear ya. But I've made a conscious decision NOT to provide much beginner content. For whatever reason, the market is really flooded with fly fishing 101 stuff. It's there for you. I think the best place for that is the Orvis Learning Center. I've built Troutbitten around advanced and intermediate kinds of tactics and information, and it will probably stay that way. I can see someday, maybe, doing a beginner's series, but that won't be for a long time. Cheers. And thanks for your support..

[@scottlowe3355]

Fantastic production and content. Very helpful and clear to follow! Thanks Dom!

[@Troutbitten]

Thanks, buddy.

[@jasongrosser1307]

TB, you should go over the thumb haul shooting cast

[@Troutbitten]

Need more words in that sentence. Don't know what you mean. Ha.

[@jasongrosser1307]

@@Troutbitten wow, the all knowing TB doesn't know the thumb haul cast?😉 (jokin, im sure you do but don't use that name) Its used when you have have tight cover behind you and you can't use a traditional cast or lob. So you are basically doing a spin rod fling cast mixed with a roll cast. You have to strip in so a bit less than a rods length is out of the guides and you lift the rod tip up and behind you, like you would a roll cast, but let the flies swing behind you too. You have your line hand gripped with the mono going straight down the middle of your thumb (and almost press your thumb nail down in to the mono so it doesn't slip) and once you feel the flies hit the back of the swing, in one motion you fling (like a spin rod cast) and haul down with your thumb to really bend the rod and shoot the rig out. You do need a certain about of weight on to do this... you can't do it with a couple small perdigons and no splitshot for example. I suppose I mainly do it when fishing an indi to maximize my upstream drifts. With the right amount of weight on, say a tung rubber legs, I can shoot out at least 30-40'

[@martinhodell8465]

When you shoot on the pickup, does this ever compromise your hookset? Or do you shoot the slack just after the pickup/hookset has occurred?

[@Troutbitten]

No. The hookset is a different thing.

[@rodc4334]

This is when you had no strike, you are done with the drift, and want to cast again for a new drift.