Dredging with a fly rod!

Traditionally speaking, dredging with the fly rod is not necessarily considered fly fishing in a classic sense. It's a mere attempt to mimic conventional vertical jigging with equipment that was not designed for it. Sounds cumbersome... and it is, but so is vertical jigging to start with. If you are a purist, this video is not for you. If you like the idea of getting your arms pulled out of their sockets by an unseen force that is trying its best to take your line for a ride through every piece of coral it can find, this will be your drug of choice.
What you need to bring:
Bring a deep action rod that doesn't explode into smithereens under a lot of vertical pressure. We have fished Swift's Epic Boca Grande 12-weight glass rod here.
Mount up: Go, heavy leader, big reel, and big drag - prepare yourself for a serious tug-of-war. You never know what is going to take your fly.
Ugly but effective: Bring lead sinkers with you... just in case. We got reefed a million times and there are only so many heavy jigs in a normal Flatsfishing assortment. A lead sinker can turn any brushy into a jig.
Go hard! Reef fish will try to reef you at any chance possible. Set hard and play hard.
Stay connected. A lot of pelagic fish will attack the fly on the sink. Run the line through your fingers on the sink. Burn the fly in a couple of meters and drop it again. Wait for the pain.

[@AminhakimLeeChannel]

I want to try this at my place...to target Long Fin Trevally and Diomond trevally..Thanks for this knowledge🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@oldsmugglerflyfishing]

Awesome video

[@Matt-TheFinChaser]

Awesome videos guys! I feel like I need more of those dredging stuff rn!

[@AardvarkMcLeodFlyFishing]

Nice one guys!

[@pablogonzales2921]

Nice opportunity to train drilling. I like it.. ❤

[@benjaminmentges1510]

Sehr cool! Ich freue mich auf mehr content von euch 😁

[@Mancing_Baronang]

Uhhh..
Nice a fishing,,👍

[@DylanWOWilliams]

Hell yes. This is how I try for Mako when I visit my dad in Southern California. Just drop it onto an angry prespawner.
I’m not very successful, haha.

[@amfromch]

for vertical fishing i take beside my fly fishing gear my spinning gear with me, this is much more usable

[@benjamintewes3126]

Do you use a sinking fly line or just really heavy flies?

[@bradyhawk101]

He says 500-700 grain sinking line

[@FlyFishingNation]

Depending on the conditions. Sometimes both. We ran out of heavy jigs flies after our first hour and we had to retreat to lead shots with normal GT flies. It was brutal.

[@thxme7447]

what reel is that

[@FlyFishingNation]

Mako Cosmo Camo 9600

[@tonyhernandez2163]

What rod is that

[@bradyhawk101]

Swift's Epic Boca Grande 12-weight glass rod

[@FlyFishingNation]

@@bradyhawk101 Correct. We had a custom rod fitted with an additional grip to make Dredging easier