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Video: Pre-runoff fly fishing tactics for cutthroat streams

FISHING -- Sean Visintainer of Silver Bow Fly Shop in Spokane Valley has produced a series of informational fly fishing videos that take the mystery out of rigging up and presenting flies to trout in the pre-runoff shoulder season.

This one's titled: Pre-Runoff Fly Fishing Tactics Part 1 - NF Coeur d'Alene / St Joe Rivers.

Says Visintainer:

The topics that I discuss in this video include:

  • walk/wade fishing back eddies with nymphs/streamers
  • fishing "soft" water along the bank
  • casting tip for dealing with steep/brushy banks.

When water levels go up in the spring, don't let walk/wade fishing these rivers scare you. Most of the time the fish are tight to the bank and you don't even have to get in the water.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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