Swinging Wet Flies with Tom Rosenbauer

[@marklowen7353]

Excellent information and delivered very nicely

[@ianatkins1213]

Thanks, from Australia. Always enjoy your tips. Just back from a trip to our Alpine area. Fishing was tough, coming into summer, with lower than normal water levels. Turned my trip around, with a couple of nice rainbows swinging soft hackles.

[@johngiffen7262]

We typically use 3 wet flies for this method and sometimes 4 here in the uk and more so in north of England and in my patch Scotland and in particular with spiders ( soft hackles); but there are no hard and fast rules as far as I’m concerned just enjoy the experience and thanks Tom for your input and knowledge.

[@garynicholson2855]

Tom did you tie the dropper and point fly to a standard 9ft tapered leader?

[@henryvanpletzen7897]

Thanks for the tips

[@PiperFishing]

So that triple surgeons knot wont slip down to the bottom fly if you hook a fish on the upper one?

[@walkswithrods3757]

Nope! It stays put. The shorter tag end for your 'top' fly is just a continuation of the original tippet through the knot, and the non-tag end is the same as any other tippet you've tied to before. No increased risk of the knot slipping. 👍

[@FTATF]

Not a bad knot for this. A dropper loop would be better, same concept different knot. Actually just a variation of a blood knot but tied much differently

[@johngiffen7262]

Oh I ment to add we would normally fish upstream 😊

[@milescobb4184]

People typically swing soft hackles; can you swing standard nymphs too? What other types of flies could be swung effectively?

[@danielsinner4767]

You *could* swing standard nymphs, though it's not really what they're designed for, but might imitate a "swimmer" mayfly for example. Streamers would be another fly that are effectively swung as is often done in the salmon/steelhead world (where trout are a somewhat regular "by catch").

[@matter3232]

What the Texans use a bobber oops indicater😂

[@GheeDV]

Thanks Tom