Five Steps to Landing More Fish
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- After the interview I did with Marshall from Midcurrent a few weeks back, one of the viewers asked if I could provide some tips on how to land fish on light tippet. I decided it would be best to answer this question in video format and show the steps I use to land as many hooked fish as I can. In this video I show the five step process I typically use to convert hooked fish into netted fish.
I’ve watched dozens of videos and this is the only one that actually explained any real strategies. Outstanding
Glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully it helps you out on the water.
Devon, all of the previous comments say it all. Catching fish is a process...thank you for the knowledge to be successful landing fish. We spend $$$ buying material, many hours watching video and tying our favorite flies, but we rarely spend time figuring out how to be accomplished at landing fish. Thank You Devin.
Happy to help Brent. I spent a lot of time for a lot of years experimenting with ways to increase my fish landing rate. Hopefully this video shortenes that learning curve for you and others.
I joined our local comp scene end of last year, and the guys showed me these techniques. Think this is the first video I’ve come across that actually discusses how to land a fish correctly. 👍🏻
I've got to say this is a great tutorial. I put this to work on the water recently and it's putting more fish in my net, quicker, without as much disturbance to the holes in process.
David Woods thanks! I’m glad the video helped you on the water.
That’s by far the best instruction on fighting and landing fish. Nicely done Dev!
Gilbert Rowley thanks!
I'm with Gilbert on this one... Best fish fishing and landing video on the internet.
Excellent analysis, and one hell of a nice little river!
Thank you and thanks for watching
Thanks Devin, I've learned so much from you over the past few years.
Robert Chacon glad I’ve been able to help.
Devon, this is the best video I have ever seen on fighting and landing fish. I am recommending it to all my friends.
Andy Cordova thanks
Totally agree. Devil's in the details.
Thanks, Devin. Great video and instruction. I have used your "rod low" method since taking up euro nymphing in early-2019; however, I didn't get the angle of the rod until watching this. Can't wait to try it. Incidentally, I don't go with guides very often but when I do it is always frustrating to have them yelling "tip up". Now I can forward the link to this video to them if needed. ;-)
Roger D Stover haha! Glad you enjoyed it.
The best instruction is available to us by these great fisherman here in Utah. Thanks very very much for sharing.
Carol Gunnell thanks 🙏
I have been watching a TON of videos as I'm a noob and this was by far the best video I've seen! Thank you very much!
Glad it helped!
This is a public service announcement. With how many anglers and fish are caught on highly pressured waters, this video is helpful to fight fish efficiently. It puts so much less stress on the fish and they get released back into the water quickly. Also the euro style nets make it much easier to land and keep fish wet while unhooking, untangling, etc. I've seen Devin put the brakes on a very large calico bass headed back to his home in the rocks. He is a master at putting a maximum amount of pressure without tugging or yanking on the rod to move fish closer. If the fish is BIG and it moves 1" closer and the angler keeps the pressure on, the fish will usually keep moving in that direction if the pressure is steady and smooth. Smooth and steady pressure with the rod is an important aspect as well. Thank you Devin!
I needed this video lesson decades...and many lost fish...ago! Superb instruction. Thanks!
James Vatter better late than never 😁
Devin, again I thank you for these tips! They really have helped me land more fish. Today gave me an appreciation for the lessons you gave in this video when I saw a young dude lose a beautiful rainbow due to him raising his rod tip straight up causing the fish to jump out of the water and off the hook. He had no control of the fish.
Glad they've helped Sherri. The experience you witnessed happens countless times everyday across the globe. I'm glad it's happening less to you now!
As always, great instruction to help us with our fly fishing! Thank you Devin. You and your website are of great value to those of us trying to improve. Keep it up!
Chris Wicks thank you.
Hi Devin, EXCELLENT video, the most informative landing video I've seen. Unfortunately, I've been helping my brother learn to fly fish, so of course I've been yelling "KEEP THE ROD TIP UP" every time he's hooked a fish. I'm now going to have a hard time telling him that I MADE A MISTAKE or that he misunderstood me!! oh well
It’s on now! Thanks for the lesson!
Happy New Year on the water!
They have college courses on fly fishing. You would make a great professor. Best part.... All your years in the field would give you instant tenure! Since I fish primarily alone I have learned at least as much from you as anyone else in my life. Thanks again, Devin.
Thanks Devin! Big fan and student of yours, I bought both Modern Nymphing videos and practice the techniques religiously and in tern have caught waaaay more fish.
Dark
Great video ! Thanks for posting . Makes perfect sense when you walk through it like that
Glad it was helpful!
Best video on landing fish. I've realized all the mistakes I've made and why I lost fish, so this video is invaluable to me.
Hopefully it helps out on the water.
Fantastic video and tips. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it Matt.
@@tacticalflyfisher3817 I actually caught 25 fish the other day on the Davidson... And had to deploy the tactics in a 18" brown. 3wt syndicate p2... Fish was a handful. Had I not watched this... It would of never made the net. Thanks again!🙌
Very useful explanation! I lost few big fish because they ran downstream with the current
Just want to say thanks for your instructional videos which I can truly say have been game changers for me and the way I fish. I hope you can have time to put together a still water video series soon. Heading to the tactical store now!
rick ulibarri thanks. I’m currently writing a stillwater book so my stillwater days have been focused on that. As I get further along I may shoot some videos as well.
Extremely effective technique. Can’t wait to try it on the river.
Hope it helps
What a wonderful set of tips. Can't wait to employ them on the stream! Thank you!
Tommy Tatham thank you. Good luck on the water.
I can't say thank you enough for taking the time to make this Extremely Beneficial video on how to properly fight fish in strong currents .. Thanks again 😎👍
Thanks Devin! What a great video, been struggling with this often can’t wait to try it out.
Hopefully it will help you out on the water.
Great video. Excellent instruction with just the right amount of repetition
Retep Onbud thanks
Awesome video. This explains why I keep losing fish when I keep my rod tip up. I will put your tips into practice now. Thank you 🙏
Excellent video! Bravo! Best explanation and technique I’ve seen. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Glad you enjoyed it. Happy fishing.
Very good tips! I hope to put them to use soon.
This video help me out so much I lost five fish today and I never moved my rod up steam plait kept it down stream. One fish even took my fly. Now I see what I was doing wrong. I tried keeping it up the rod and I lost one too because I kept trying to get it on the net but again my rod was down stream with the fish. Thanks for the knowledge I’m gonna try it next time
Good luck!
Great video, thanks to these tips I landed two of the biggest browns I've ever caught on 5x in fast water on the Colorado near Kremling.
thanks Devin, will try this on Father's Day this weekend.
Thanks! I’ve picked up some good tips. Really appreciate you sharing.
Thanks Devin. You're the Man
Thank you Devin!
Great video! Your stuff is always top notch. Elevated Nymphing Series was incredible. It has greatly improved my success on the stream. Keep up the great work!
Another great video by you. well done !
Superb instruction: I am learning A LOT from your videos. Thanks a lot. Greetings from the river Wye in Wales (where the river is up and brown).
Thanks very much for watching and commenting. I hope the river shapes up for you soon.
great tip. i lose a fish almost every trip out and now i know why. hopefully i'll net them all now.
Well done...again.
Thanks!
As always, top notch instruction, thank you.
Andrew Oakes thank you.
Thank you. Another excellent and extremely helpful video!
cs1089 glad you enjoyed it
As always, solid info, instruction. Thanks!
Great tips, always appreciate your insight, thanks!
Orin glad you enjoyed it.
Excellent video!
Nice video, as many fish as I’ve landed I still saw things I do incorrectly or can improve on. Thanks Devin.
This was extremely helpful. Thank you!!
Hopefully it helps you net a few more fish on the water.
It definitely will because I’ve been losing a lot of large fish in fast water lately. I’m finding it frustrating when I’m standing in the middle of a large stream with a fast current to land these fish. With your upstream low rad technique I’m hoping my fish fighting blues dissipate. Cheers!
Seems so simple and effective. I hate to admit it but i lose more fish than i should on my fly rod so i'm excited to try this out this weekend!
Hope it helps.
Thank you for sharing this. These tips are very helpful
That’s funny I was just looking for information on this topic and was going to reach out to you. Thanks!!
Braden Thornton glad the timing was right. I hope it helped.
Dry informative. Will work on it...
Very nice, thank you!
The best of the best, Thx Devin!
This was an extremely helpful video!
Todd M thanks for the feedback. Good luck on the water.
Great advice, thanks!
I always thought I could land fish fast, watched this yesterday, and tried the upstream landing method today on a few fish. I lost quite a few but what amazed me is how quickly the fish were upstream of my feet once I moved the rod upstream. I guess I'm going to have to go fishing again to practice some more :D
David Palmer excuses to go fishing are always a good thing. 😊
great and informative video
Glad you liked it!
Very helpful.
Awesome video
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
I’ve been using the Statue of Liberty posture and trying to figure out why I’m losing fish. Now I know and will make the adjustment next time I’m on the water.
There are videos that are really exercises in narcissism, and there are videos that are genuinely helpful. This video, and all of yours, for that matter, fall squarely in the latter category. Thanks. Now, could you tell me what reel you're using in the video?
Alex Argyros glad you enjoyed it. I used two reels, the Ross Evolution LTX 5/6 and the Ross San Miguel 3/4.
Solid instruction true and tried!
Thanks for the refresher on landing fish. I was up fishing the Platte river and I lost 2 very nice Brownies. Because I took them front on. Instead of taking my rod upstream? On my euro rigg. I swear it's twice the shock and fun factor 😳😊😊😊😊🤦♂️💡
Hopefully it helps on the river next time.
Great stuff!
Great job ! Such an informative video !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great tips!👌awesome video☺🐟
AwFlyfishing thanks
Nice video. Thanks for the info.
Thanks! I’ve been loosing fish and flys bc of my line snapping
You make it look so easy! I had many questions that you answered for me. Very helpful vid.
Neil Lee glad it helped.
Thank you!
Subbed. Fantastic content.
Rick Mottola thanks!
Great Video! I'm new to Fly Fishing though I have been fishing for a very long time. Lots to learn. I have been catching a lot of fish but I did have two larger trout "eat my lunch". The first situation was when I was in about hip deep fairy fast water. I hooked the trout and it immediately went down stream spinning off line in the process. I jumped and did some acrobatics but was tiring out. At this point, it's about 50 feet away from me and I'm starting to make my way to it. But, before I could get 20 feet away from it, it's flattens out in a fast riffle and throws the hook.
The second instance was at a log jam. I never saw it. It bit under heavy cover and went further into the cover to the point where it almost jumped onto land. The issue I had was it went under the tree cover and I had two nymphs on (I recall a #8 Scud and #16 midge dropper). Well, it seems like the other fly got caught up on something and I lost that one too. It did take out some line (maybe 7 feet).
What strategies would you have used in these situations or what would you have done to stay out of them altogether?
James Dillard go a couple videos back. I did one on fish fighting methods.
James Dillard oops. I though this comment was for my latest video. I would still follow the same steps realizing that there needs to be brakes applied in alternate directions when there are obstructions.
@@tacticalflyfisher3817 In fast moving water, If I cannot get under the fish because of large obstructions, how should one play this out? I was using 7x and hooked into something I couldn't move. I was stuck into wondering if I should just "wait it out" or "test my test" lol. Getting under the fish works great but sometimes it's not possible. Any advice would be appreciated.
@@djTorchLive If you can't get downstream of the fish, all you can do is use the angles and pressure I outline in the video. On 7x and in heavy current, you have to accept that you're going to lose some fish.
Nice shit dude! As always!
A great summary...thank you! How would you handle a large fish on light tippet where there are lots of weed beds the fish head for when hooked? I'm thinking of places like the ranch section of the Henry's Fork in Idaho or various western spring creeks.
I would still use the same basic steps. However, whenever there are bottom obstructions (weeds, boulders, rocks, etc.) you obviously have to make angle changes to keep fish away from those obstructions. With full weed beds, I tend to quarter my angles upward a bit more instead of just upstream or to the side.
Just great 👍👍👍👍👏
Thank you for the tips! If you're fishing a down and across approach and you (have to) set the hook when the fish is downstream, do you apply the same principles?
Yes. At that point the fish is starting as if it had made a long run downstream. I still use the same angles and pressure to work the fish back up to me.
@@tacticalflyfisher3817 Thank you! Can't wait to try this on all my fish this year! Fishing dries on the Railroad Ranch on the Henry's Fork and I've been steamrolled by some feisty 'bows. This technique will hopefully give me the upper hand. Thanks again! Love your videos!
wish i saw this video before i went out this evening, today i hooked what would of been my personal best by easily a lb. and on the river im on its not known for big fish. was probably close to 3lbs minimum and on the river leven thats a big trout lol jumped in the air was beautiful dark brown and flew downstream and snapped off at my surgeons knot, barely had enough time to react, all happened in the span of 6 seconds.
thankfully the area is a 5 minute walk from my home. and it was under a high density of tree's with low hanging branches with deep water so thought surely there must be a big fish, and i was right.
Michael Mckenna hopefully you meet up with the fish again and it goes your way next time!
@@tacticalflyfisher3817 i attempted it today, been a few days so should of been there. but as soon as i got to the very difficult area, sat down, setup everything about to cast and a bloody kayak came and ruined the whole stretch. i never minded kayakers until today.
After 40 years fly fishing ( I took a 15 year break when I was young and dumb) I have used Covid post lockdown to Euro nymph for the first time and about every second day. I love it I found however that I was losing far more fish than any other method. Your video gives a new skill set to work with. I would argue that the euro rig makes this downstream set upstream play even more important than standard rig. What do you think?
Thanks Devon for the great information.
Question: what about hookset and rod angle for those fished hooked downstream vs upstream? I tend to let my tightline setup swing downstream of me to get a long drift (often feeding out more line), and have hooked many fish this way as the nymphs rise at the end of the swing. With a low rod, I set the hook to either side of the fish as setting the hook "downstream" isn't possible given the fish is already downstream of me. How does your sequence work in this situation? I realize the best situation is for the fish to be upstream of me when I can then set the hook a downstream motion, prior to the nymphs drifting past me, but that situation doesn't always materialize as planned. I ask this question as I tend to lose more fish when hooked downstream than upstream, and usually not right at hookset but after a few seconds of fighting the fish.
Keep up the great work Devon! Duke
duke ramshaw I still set the hook to my downstream side. This has the effect of setting the hook toward the bank in that instance. I’ve found it works a lot better than setting upward or upstream which ends up pulling the fly right out of a fish’s mouth.
Thanks for the great video! What backpack are you wearing?
Super helpful video, thank you. Are you using the large or regular size of your net here? Helpful to see it's size in context, just need to know which one it is. Much appreciated!
I use the large.
@@tacticalflyfisher3817 Thank you! Just picked one up
Great video. I don't think I've thought much about my landing technique until now. One question - does size matter? Would you use the same technique if you had a steelhead or even a salmon on the line?
thank you for the information most of us never figure out on our own or have just been taught incorrectly. any adjustments with larger fish - 20"+ and lighter tippets like 6x?
Mon Lun Yee nope. Just try and keep the fish even with or upstream of you. You may need to wade downstream quickly if they make a run.
How would adjust for say 10#+ steelhead or other very large fish. Although one wouldn’t typically have light tippet, fish in that category go pretty much where they want until you wear them down.
Great info as always. Any tips for hook set when they eat the dry on a dry dropper rig? I'm always surprised when the dry is eaten and often set too quickly (I think) as if it was the nymph that went down. Do you pause before setting? Thanks
Hugo Gerard if they’ve eaten a dry, I always wait until their head is back under water and pointed down. Where the timing gets tough is with quick smaller fish.
@@tacticalflyfisher3817 got it, thanks
Ta m8, gr8 vid
Mark Jacobson glad you enjoyed it.
I HAVE AN APPRECIATION FOR YOUR INFORMATION. ID LOVE TO SEE YOU DO A SHOW ON THE RUSSIAN RIVER AND KENAI RIVER REDS(SOCKEYE) HERE IN ALASKA
Great video Devin, when you were fishing the CfH competition the last 2 years, raising your rod at the end of the fight with those huge fish would put you into all the branches and limbs around those smaller streams. I usually have kept my rod bent upstream until fish's head is just above the water, above my stance, then release tension on the line and let the fish come back downstream to my net. What would you do different in this situation? Hope to see this fall.
I usually find a gap in the trees to exploit and try to follow the same strategy. I also squat or get on a knee to lower my rod tip below the trees.
I find that the hook pulls out much more frequently when I have the rod angled upstream than down (low to the water either way). This makes sense given the fact that the pressure is pulling the fly away from the fished mouth instead of into it. I typically try to get a fish slightly upstream of me and have the rod angled downstream. The fish mostly swims away from the pressure...until it doesn't and I need to race after it, especially for bigger fish. What am I missing on having the rod to my upstream side that is resulting in more lost fish? Do I need to wait until I am level with the fish? Is it a matter of the angle of my rod (not sure if I get to 95 def and definitely want to test that out)? I mostly avoid having my rod upstream of me to not lose fish and it is definitely a hindrance to my fish fighting. Thanks for any advice.
crichH20 it’s hard for me to know without watching you. All I can say is that if you follow the steps and specific angles I share in the video, experience has shown me it is the best way to land the highest proportion of the fish in the quickest amount of time. It is possible your pressure is too high or low or your angle is too little or too much. Another variable that could be factoring into your situation is your hook choice so you may want to look into that as well.
@@tacticalflyfisher3817 thanks for the response. I will have to give things a try next time I'm on the water.
Interesting. What do you do for big fish like steelhead or salmon?
It's very much the same except that the rod, tippet, etc. would obviously be different.
Can I ask what the name of that river was it looks like somewhere I have been recently
Joshua Gundersen sorry but if I felt it was responsible for me to share the name of the river I would have done it in the video. I maintain a pretty strict policy of no names in my videos even on well known water.
Question: I remember seeing in Modern Nymphing how you said to stay below the fish but I didn’t see that in this video. How important is it to move down river in order to stay below the fish?
Braden Thornton it’s important which is why I talk about bringing the fish upstream of you to net it. There was a fish on this day where I demonstrated the need for it but it’s going to go in a follow up fun fishing video.
Tactical Fly Fisher My question more refers to is it important to stay below the fish during the entire fight and move down river to stay below it if it moves downstream? Thanks for the video, super helpful!
Braden Thornton yes. It is important to stay even or below the fish if at all possible. You’ll see the example I’m talking about when I put together the next video.
I set the hook uo stream so as not to pull it out of its mouth. Comment?
What rod are u using in video?
Hey Devin. You said it had been 15 years since you fished that river. Where was it?
Skylar Holliman sorry. That’s one thing I’ll be keeping to myself.
@@tacticalflyfisher3817 gotcha. Is it in Utah?
I went to my local orthodontist and bought 500 rubber bands for $2.
What rod is that?
Banzai83 I used two. The last one is a prototype for a t and t Contact II that will be released in early July.
Tactical Fly Fisher ah ok, just a quick question. I’ve started early this year short nymphing with a floating indicator. I started with a echo rod shadow 2. It’s been a great start rod but now I want a more premium rod and I’ve looked at my local dealer at a hardy ultra lite 9,9 #3. But compared to my echo it has a normal action in the tip, will that be a problem when short nymphing or just a new feeling? One of the things I’ve like about the 3cho is that I can put a lot of pressure and not risking the leader because of the soft top and do a hard lift on the takes.
Why are you on your knees?
To get closer to the fish without being in their cone of vision and spooking them.