Wet Fly Tactics; It's more than just swinging a fly in the current

[@paultracy3706]

I just started to fish wet flies for the first time after 20 years. Very educational video, thank you. Cheers!

[@metallicblood]

I as a beginner in fly fishing love your videos. They have such great angles and you explain so well and in detail how to fish a certain place. Unmatched quality.

[@thecookingfisherman]

PETER your VIDS are always very well done and informative. Thanks for your help in learning to fly fish cheers

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

Great, I use techniques rather like these I fish them even as I do nymphs. I love wet flies. These methods really extend the opportunities for hits! :-) It's quite funny when I'm retrieving some line for a new cast and I get a hit. sometimes ver near me. :-)

[@reserrvoirman]

When I first s fly fishing years ago I always fished with dry flies. None of the flies we fished with had weight in them. That’s when we figured out they like the fly just under a bit. I had a copy of Ray Bergmans book trout and started copying the plates of wet flies and caught more fish than not. Toss them in there and hold on You’ll know when you. Got one.that’s a great description of wet fly fishing. Got to watch for that stray smallmouth that peels you into the backing. Good luck.

[@patrickmccambridge]

1st time viewer and I just subscribed because this may be one of the best instructional videos I have seen. This video alone will give me another great tool on the water when drys and nymphing are not working. My wet flies will actually get wet soon. Thank you sir.

[@MrBeefy-eg9ru]

Fantastic video, I just started fishing last year, and I have been tying flies all winter. I wanted to learn about wet flies, and I find there is not as much out there. This explains it very well.

[@marshallsage6816]

I have watched numerous videos about trout fishing. I want to get into trout fishing and away from bass fishing. I can fish for bass everyday here. I can’t fish for trout here. I have watched countless trout fishing videos, including this one. I have watched videos that show fisherman not using any of the advice given in the countless videos I’ve watched, including the Orvis videos by Tom Rosenbaurer. May have spelled his name wrong but everyone gets the ideal. How much faith can we put in their advice. Some maybe but the best thing is to go fishing and learn. That’s what I’m doing. I may fail and not catch a trout but the next time I try there will be a better chance for me because I learned from my last attempt. Videos won’t catch fish. There is some help in videos but getting out there and learning on your own is the most valuable action anyone can take to learn how to catch trout.

[@brian1204]

First time finding/viewing your channel; very good info, and a very nice presentation! I like how you’ve layered your narration and picture over the wide view of you fishing. Quality!

[@nicolelewis1828]

Thank you Peter. I just learned to swing flies last year. Your instruction is very helpful!

[@TroutFly]

Great advice and knowledge

[@nathancallan9376]

Thanks so much for the helpful tips! These helped me land a mess of fish the other day and are great for a beginner like me

[@uni_shadow164]

Nice instructional!

[@philipvankampen3394]

11:45 I use this technique finishing off tailouts - right where the slow water transitions to faster water. Use it to get under obstructing rocks on the front side or 'ride the escalator' to get behind the same rock.

[@paulconklin]

Great informational video Peter.

[@thetroutconjurer]

Thank you for making this video. I fish wetflies with fixed line and you covered a few presentations I do with them. The weighted wetfly in particular can be extremely deadly. I have a request for a video of tying and fishing Cutcliffe stiff hackled wet flies, or a video of fishing a fly in the bob fly position. Its been a particularly effective method for me this year. Cheers.

[@hooked4lifeca]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do next year when trout season opens.

[@hankvana2149]

A big thank you for this video Peter! I used to fish a lot of wet flies for trout, kinda got away from them now that I fish SM Bass most of the time. My all-time favorite wet fly for Brook Trout is a "Dark Montreal". I do fish a lot of 3/4" to 1" fish fry and small baitfish imitations early in the season, guess I could call them "wet flies" by size but I fish them with a lot of action so I think of them as streamers. Out of preference it's usually 60% nymphs, 30% streamers and 10% top water flies in a days fishing. Think it's time to mix a bunch of wet flies in with the nymphs as they are similar in presentation. Thanks again for the suggestions, looking forward to more videos in this series. Been neglecting wet flies for too long! Cheers!

[@Rustyboyyy1]

Beautiful cast at 5mins in video. 🤙🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@derekspace]

Great advise! I learned some stuff. Thanks!

[@steelhead6368]

It's funny how I went fishing today and started doing something I never thought of doing before which was stripping a nymph. Then I see your video about putting motion into a fly.😅 I thought nymphs were just suppose to drift down until a fish hits it but today I gave it motion. Tiny strips with my fingers and I must have caught at least 20+ 4-6" brownies in the same pool. I was watching the fish as I was stripping nymphs and you can see about 10 fish chasing it.

[@hooked4lifeca]

Yup, emerging mayflies move quite well and it's often movement that turns our nymph from a bit of wood to something worth eating.

[@steelhead6368]

11:44 you can see a fish flashing. Near the base of the bridge.

[@hooked4lifeca]

Yup, I believe it's the same one I hooked and landed there a few weeks earlier on the same fly. It wasn't in the mood to be fooled twice, this time on camera. It's a brown about 18".

[@KW_FlyFishing]

Great tips thank you sir

[@rjohnson5120]

At 4:06 you mention a technique, regarding mayfly nymphs, that I can’t quite catch (no pun intended). What is it? Love your videos and information. Always fascinating and helpful even down here in Texas. Might have to try swinging wet flies for river bass.

[@hooked4lifeca]

Mayfly nymphs rise to the surface when their bodies fill with gas prior to emerging as a dun. Some of them try to swim back down to the bottom where they're safe, producing an up and down motion as they bob back up. The Leisenring Lift is a lifting and dropping of the rod tip at the end of the drift, to simulate this up and down motion of some mayfly nymphs.

[@rjohnson5120]

@@hooked4lifeca Aha! I was googling Liza Ring, as in Liza Minnelli… lol. An emerging mayfly nymph’s world is terrifying!

[@robertandersson331]

Thanks

[@jerrygreen4541]

Peter, great video again. I have been tying and fishing wet flies for several years and it has become my favorite way to fish for trout and steelhead. One question, what is the fly box you are using? I have not been able to find anything like it.

[@hooked4lifeca]

It's a Wheatley clip box: richardwheatley.co.uk/collections/clip-boxes/products/clip-boxes

[@lesterma1608]

When using 2 flies which is bottom fly and which is upper fly, larger or smaller?

[@hooked4lifeca]

Usually the point fly (the one at the end of the leader) is the largest and heaviest.

[@jackwrademaker7430]

Wel what tactics do you use with troutspey and wetfly's and what size speyrod do u use for wetfly fishing for trout. Can u use a 4 weigth spey rod

[@hooked4lifeca]

Swinging flies with a trout Spey works, just like it would for salmon or steelhead. For my own fishing, I only use single hand rods. A 4 wt. Spey should be fine.

[@aaronwilliamwallace]

Wet fly is how I do 90% of my trout fishing. I'll do it regardless of fly hatches, as long as there's water I'll swing wet flies and also nymphs. The remaining 10% is upstream dry fly in my local small river which is too small to fish wets in

[@captainkoo]

You use wet flies like soft hackles and nymphs like hares ears, PT, midges etc?

[@aaronwilliamwallace]

@@captainkoo I use your standard wet flies, like teal and blacks, Peter Ross, etc, but also swing nymphs like hares ears, Diawl Bach, and Prince nymphs. I know it's not what you're supposed to do but it works and I like doing it

[@captainkoo]

@@aaronwilliamwallace thank you ! I believe Peter Charles, the guy in this video, does the same. He swings nymphs and wets. Whatever works is the right way ! Thanks for the response and good luck !

[@reserrvoirman]

@@captainkoo Look at The book Trout by Ray Bergman there’s plates of flies maybe twenty pages. You can catch a lot of fish with those old winged wets. Fish em under a hatch an hood on.

[@sgrahammd]

Do you ever use a "slinky" coiled piece of tippet as a strike indicator when wet fly fishing?

[@hooked4lifeca]

No I haven't. When Euro nymphing, I just use a regular sighter. When swinging, I feel the hit. When dead drifting near the surface I usually see/feel the hit, so no need for the slinky.

[@sgrahammd]

@@hooked4lifeca Thanks, I'm an avid fan of your videos

[@colincampbell5181]

Hi Peter just a quick question What brand of rod are you using ? Love your content very helpful information thank you

[@hooked4lifeca]

I'm pro staff for G. Loomis so obviously that's what I use exclusively. However, in this case, that white rod was an el cheapo that I painted white for my casting instruction. I don't even remember the brand. The label was painted over. ;)

[@paulhunt5823]

Sorry Peter, you mentioned that the Yorkshire Wet patterns are caddis, the vast majority are not, in fact the Partridge and Orange is a classic pattern that represents an up-winged fly.

[@hooked4lifeca]

I replied to this earlier but it seems to have gone missing. I am aware of that part of their history, however these soft hackle wets to a great job of imitating caddis pupae. I should have made the distinction between the history and my suggested use.