Wet Fly Basics for Trout

Great educational video that covers the basics of swinging wet flies for trout. Host Norm Bolen discusses why this technique works so well for trout everywhere. Important technique all fly fishers should learn to master!
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[@travismcclellan3413]

I started fly fishing about 4 years ago and am completely self taught so any info I can find is a great help. I mostly fish lakes and ponds but am starting to venture into streams and rivers and the challenge is almost to much. Last fishing trip I caught and released a 19inch rainbow so now there is no giving up.

[@farmerbob4554]

I’ve used this technique on small mountain streams where you may only get a drift of 2-3 feet. I can use a wet fly with a mend so it’s more like a nymph or on a tight line so it’s on or near the surface. It’s a great technique especially in shallow water. Thanks for the entertaining video.

[@ryanturner3945]

What guide doesn't have or use a net?

[@glenndotter5065]

Started with wet flies over 60 years ago. Still using and tying them today

[@bok9201]

Great video. I fish casts of two or three wet flies for all of my trout fishing. A silver Invicta, Wickham's fancy, North Country spider or wet flies of my own design combined with floating or intermediate lines and polyleaders allow me to fish all levels in the water column. I can spend the rest of my life learning to fish this beguiling method and never, ever have to stare at an indicator. To each his own; this is my technique of choice.

[@OldBear5255]

Great video. Was full of helpful tips on fishing wet flies. Thanks for another helpful video. Tight lines my friends. Best Regards from West Virginia, Ken 🐜🐟

[@newflyfisher]

Glad it was helpful!

[@chefmatt6299]

I’ve been really wanting a video on this topic! Trying to learn it on your own without video demonstrations to research makes it more challenging. Thanks for putting this out, it’s a big help and I really enjoyed it!

[@newflyfisher]

Glad it was helpful!

[@123marlo]

Well folks we still fish this way over here in Scotland and I fished this way when I fished in Alaska and in BC years ago and I caught plenty of fish so I like the old ways and I ain’t kicking the new ways it’s just what you get used to, tight lines folks now we can get out from the lockdown ✊🎣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

[@unclefuddelmer9224]

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@dominiqueleblanc2193]

I really need to try this. Just got a new 4 weight also!

[@austinmack5791]

How do you Mend the whole fly line?

[@keiranrooker7981]

I’ve never understood how to swing wet flies just what that means and the technique hoping this video will shed some light on that problem

[@Night_Rider4570]

The swing is the way the line floats while drifting. You generally have to re cast at the end of the swing because the fly is below you. I’m pretty sure you want your line as straight as possible while it’s drifting too. If it’s not straight you have to mend the line so there isn’t drag on the fly.

[@bensnyder5890]

Awesome video. I was just discussing wet flies with my brother in law last night. One question though, can you run a dual fly set up as you would with nymphs?

[@newflyfisher]

Yes, absolutely

[@thechosenonecollection8673]

Do you need a tippet? Or only leader?

[@newflyfisher]

you should use 18-36 inches of tippet as well

[@jared5862]

I love wet flies and dries. They are classic techniques that I love pairing with my bamboo rods. While other flies and techniques catch plenty of fish it just feels like a sin to throw a squirmy wormy on a century old bamboo rod.

[@steveg8322]

Sad to see wet flies fall out of favor, the Alexandra wet fly caught me a beautiful brown and rainbow today. The Royal Coachman,March Brown, Leadwing Coachman,Greenwell's Glory etc, etc.Old school valor,ancient and honorable.

[@HighcountryFlylife]

I find the March Brown a successful fly, it's more like a bigger nymph but I use it as a wet fly

[@jayr7471]

Wet fly fishing allegedly was the very first form 2000 years ago when someone fixed a cockle feather to a hook and threw it with a braided line. Reference The Compleat Angler.

[@freddymartin7664]

Exelent vídeo Great technique!👍

[@williamghost1516]

depending on laws in your area... a wet fly with one or two nymph droppers will give you more options as to depth and the fish more options as to what attracts them.

[@pecanjesaaleksandrom1108]

Bravo

[@Mightiflier]

I will say the other info is very good, I don’t know why the host or camera man wasn’t more assertive to the instructor

[@tidelybumsquish]

Nice I just use a worm and jig. Lol

[@jeremymolt148]

You yold us to mend the whole line but failed to show how

[@HighcountryFlylife]

It's not a video about mending. 🤔 This is about the technique on fishing wet flies. There are videos on mending with this channel!

[@Mightiflier]

@@HighcountryFlylifeyou showed us how not to mend, but then failed to show the most important part: how to do the mend!! Yes it is about the mend since you went to the trouble to show how not to. Sorry, just frustrated that you left that out of such an otherwise fine video.

[@BruleWanderer]

What you are missing is that you want the line to be straight right after or just after the mend. This simulates a wet fly nymph RISING from the bottom of the stream. I did not see that in this video. You dont want the nymph to just free float all the time - thats a stonefly nymph. A wet fly like a coachman or an emerger simulates a caddis or mayfly RISING to the top of the stream to fly away. Stoneflies crawl about and cling to the rocky bottom, sheltered from the current - stoneflies hatch, or emerge, on dry land. Often the nymph crawls to a streamside rock and the adult emerges. This is not simulated by a wet fly. With a stone fly, that IS dead drift, simulating that the fly has fallen from its position in the current, and is dead drifting. I have caught large trout with a stonefly nymph, even with the line straight out however. But the main thing with a wet-fly, is to get it to RISE. You cant do that if you are always dead drifting it.

[@newflyfisher]

Great feedback and instruction, many thanks

[@Kitiwake]

Buddy... You need a buoyancy aid. I've been washed over a weir, stepped into a hole ans both times the chest waders flooded. An inflatable life jacket, well maintained, saved me.

[@caileanmoore2835]

Turn yourself around. Traditional wets and spiders are fished upstream. You'll catch the bigger more educated fish than small kamikaze trout that jump on any fly within reach.

[@steveg8322]

Your offering will be at your feet faster than you can strip in line on all but the most sluggish of streams.

[@FlyFishMike_]

If you fished upstream from a drift boat, your guide really wouldn't like you.

[@milangradinac9148]

The guide does not know the basic rule in fishing, do not touch the fishing line, what amateurs. I often watch on this channel, how the guides accept the fish, grabbing the line leader with their hand. This is always the most unfavorable way, and it will mostly lose the fish. The angler catches the fish, fights with it, sometimes for half an hour, and the clever guide, in the end, grabs the line with his hand and loses the fish. Then the angler does not need a rod or a reel, only a line and a guide.

[@littleella9454]

We weren't overly concerned with losing the odd fish, as we hooked about a hundred. You are correct though. When dealing with big fish, I would never handle the leader. Thanks for the input. Rob