Un-Snag Your Fly Off The Bottom | Great Techniques to Know
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Tom Rosenbauer shows us some simple techniques for getting our fly back after snagging bottom.
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I’ve been doing this for 60 years. Still learning good stuff from Tom!
Thanks, buddy!
Tom is a legend, great tips!
Great video! Good common sense, but that last one with wearing your sunglasses (for eye protection) and turning your head was a bonus! Please keep them coming!
Great jumping trout at the end. My favorite way fish fight. I have goose bumps from just watching. 🤩
Great tips, thanks Tom!
Hi Tom, thanks for the tips. One thing I've not tried myself, but seen recommended, is to create tension on the line like you demonstrated for snapping it (pull tight, but don't yank), but then to quickly release it, essentially transferring that tension down to the fly and hopefully pushing it off the rock or whatever it is snagged on. Any merit to that?
Great tip and yes that can often work too
Thanks for the advice tom!
Thanks Tom, good ideas.
Great tips!
Helpful information.
Praise Tom
great advise tom
That a very good tip about having sun glasses on and turning your head. I lost my right eye for a slip shot in 1979 as a kid fishing.
Good tips. Important to protect eyes too for rigs with multiple flies, as in some cases it is the bottom fly that is snagged. When it breaks or comes loose any other flies can be like a missiles. Thoose hooks can hit deep on bare skin too. Speaking from experience of having had a few hit hands. Thankfully not eyes.
I put a non toxic split shot on point kept there by the flimsiest of overhand knot,then a nymph on a dropper up above and another tied in at the bend of the first some several inches away.If the split shot gets stuck,no big deal,flies come back unharmed,don’t use bead heads though,I loathe them anyway.
Many people profess using a level tippet for streamers or even nymphs, but I like to step down so if I do break off and it's not at the hook I leave far less line in the stream.
Rather than pulling the line through the guides reach out and take the line in hand outside the guides. Now when you pull there is little chance that the broken line will wrap around the rod tip
Don Johnson doppelgänger
I thought the pros never got snagged. I always feel like I'm an amateur when I get snagged and always move to a new location where fishermen with fancy gear can't see me.
You climb that tree and get your fly back is what you do. Haha
You NEVER EVER want to pull on the line when it is going through the guides. Get the line so it is hn your hand and then pull. Pulling against the line while it is running through the guide is the poorest advice ever. 😊
Dude, just don't fish anything but dries. Problem solved!
Ok that's one no from Chandler...... Got it!
Lol and be one of those guys sitting around on the bank waiting for fish to rise yea I’d rather just go catch ‘em
I can't believe how dumb this is. The roll cast technique works every time if you put your rod tip on the water after the roll cast and twitch it up or down stream. I can't believe this guy doesn't know this! Just incredibly poor information
Yeah he just does not know what he is talking about. Probably started fishing last week
Actually it works very well but the key is you have to let the line drop on the far side of where the fly is hung up. The twitching of the rod tip you describe is actually pulling the submerged portion of the line/leader over to the far side so when you lift up, surface tension pulls the rig away from the angler. If you were fishing dry flies you wouldn't have to wiggle your rod tip, just let the line drop on the surface on the opposite side of the fly and pull.