I read Kelly Gallup's book Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout where he describes the Jerk-Strip Retrieve. I have been trying this but your video was truly eye-opening. Your use of the rod tip to move the streamer and the Hand-Off Strip Retrieve that you use really brings Kelly's method into focus. It is much more violent that what I was attempting. Watching you do the various retrieves and the action it imparts on the fly was extremely helpful. I hope to duplicate this the next time I am fishing streamers. Thank you!!
Love that you're using hi-vis line for your video. Feel like a lot of instructional videos on UA-cam are worse off because you can't see what the line is doing. Love the change, keep it up.
This video really helps us Texas guys! Lots of streamer fishing here with all the bass we have! I appreciate all the hard work you and the Troutbitten crew put into each episode. Go catch fish, do good, don't suck haha Well said sir and thanks for the laugh
Very helpful video. I look forward to trying things out. Been fly fishing for decades and have just started fiddling more with streamers. I appreciate you emphasizing that this approach works with tight line and sinking lines. After having good luck with streamers this spring and fall, I'm trying to use this technique more for GL migratory rainbows/steelhead. Because of the sag with a sink tip, I've struggled to control the fly as much as I want. Your video has given me a lot to practice. Thank you. Look forward to seeing what it looks like when Josh doesn't blow up the hole ahead of you.
HA! Right on. Check out these two Fish and Film vids. ua-cam.com/video/evjpv52QLjk/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/jKrI0p0ZL-g/v-deo.html Both of those have streamer fishing. And the next one is titled Fishing Fall Streamers. It publishes on 11/27, and it's all streamer fishing. Cheers.
Good stuff as usual. Now put it all together for me. What's your hook set style with the jerk strip? Strip set? Down stream "nymph" set? Any chance you can get a slow-mo of that on the next fish and film? Thanks Dom
Thank you. When a fish eats, if I'm about to strip the line, then I strip set. If I'm about to jerk the rod, then I jerk with the rod for the set. That does not mean that I pull the fly out of the water. Remember that my rod tip animations are moving the fly 6,12 or 24 inches maybe. So it's easy to pull off a ten inch hook set with the rod. Basically, whatever I'm about to do next, or I'm in the process of doing, I finish that motion into a hookset when a trout eats. This is far more efficient and effective than trying to force myself into strip setting always. More on all of that in a podcast here: troutbitten.com/2024/06/09/podcast-set-the-hook-all-about-different-hooksets-s11-ep8/
Good one you just made it ok to jerk the rod tip. I always feel like if someone sees me doing this they’ll be like stop that’s not normal. Only Bass fishermen do that. Also you just managed to hold my attention for 17min and not catch a single fish. 😊
Hi Scott. Thanks, man. Most strikes are on the pause. Almost all streamer presentations are like that, if you think about it. Trout strike when you give them that moment of opportunity. While jigging, for example, fish eat on the fall, not on the way up. Your question though -- you said the strip or the pause. But remember, with the jerk strip, the strip IS the pause. Cheers.
Thanks very much. But to me there's no such thing as euro streamers. There are just streamers. And I fish them on a tight line, floating line or sinking line. I made the point in this video that everything I'm showing here is the same motions, regardless of the line being used. The line is irrelevant. The motions are what matter. Likewise, the streamers are (almost) irrelevant. What matters is the motion being created by the rod tip. Hope that makes sense.
I agree. Really, the rod can move the fly like that. Great. And then in between rod motions we need to return the rod and recover slack. That's the jerk strip. For me, it's not just moving the fly fast. It's simply the handoff and coordination of both hands and the rod tip working together to produce just about any motion we can think of, at any angle, any speed, etc.
Great demonstration, easy to understand. I will definitely give this jerk strip a try this winter when I do a majority of my streamer fishing. Gotta ask what are the rubber bands over the gloves for?
Thanks, man. I appreciate that. Regarding the rubber bands -- common question, here ya go. troutbitten.com/2018/11/11/fly-fishing-in-the-winter-your-hands/
I read Kelly Gallup's book Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout where he describes the Jerk-Strip Retrieve. I have been trying this but your video was truly eye-opening. Your use of the rod tip to move the streamer and the Hand-Off Strip Retrieve that you use really brings Kelly's method into focus. It is much more violent that what I was attempting. Watching you do the various retrieves and the action it imparts on the fly was extremely helpful. I hope to duplicate this the next time I am fishing streamers. Thank you!!
GOOD! Cheers.
I know you've covered some of this in other articles/videos, but this one was especially detailed and helpful for me. Thanks, Dom!
Glad to hear that, Mike.
Good timing on the video after having you teach me in person in October. I'm still working on the basics for trout and smallmouth bass. Thanks!!
Nice
Love that you're using hi-vis line for your video. Feel like a lot of instructional videos on UA-cam are worse off because you can't see what the line is doing. Love the change, keep it up.
Right on. We've been doing that from the beginning, in all these videos, really. I'm with you, the more you can see, the better. Cheers.
This video really helps us Texas guys! Lots of streamer fishing here with all the bass we have! I appreciate all the hard work you and the Troutbitten crew put into each episode. Go catch fish, do good, don't suck haha Well said sir and thanks for the laugh
Ha. For sure. Thanks.
Kelly and Johnny are the masters of the jerk strip technique.
Right on.
Thank you for sharing good information. Great stuff.
Cheers
Very helpful video. I look forward to trying things out. Been fly fishing for decades and have just started fiddling more with streamers. I appreciate you emphasizing that this approach works with tight line and sinking lines. After having good luck with streamers this spring and fall, I'm trying to use this technique more for GL migratory rainbows/steelhead. Because of the sag with a sink tip, I've struggled to control the fly as much as I want. Your video has given me a lot to practice. Thank you. Look forward to seeing what it looks like when Josh doesn't blow up the hole ahead of you.
HA! Right on. Check out these two Fish and Film vids.
ua-cam.com/video/evjpv52QLjk/v-deo.html
and
ua-cam.com/video/jKrI0p0ZL-g/v-deo.html
Both of those have streamer fishing. And the next one is titled Fishing Fall Streamers. It publishes on 11/27, and it's all streamer fishing.
Cheers.
Good stuff as usual. Now put it all together for me. What's your hook set style with the jerk strip? Strip set? Down stream "nymph" set?
Any chance you can get a slow-mo of that on the next fish and film?
Thanks Dom
Thank you. When a fish eats, if I'm about to strip the line, then I strip set. If I'm about to jerk the rod, then I jerk with the rod for the set. That does not mean that I pull the fly out of the water. Remember that my rod tip animations are moving the fly 6,12 or 24 inches maybe. So it's easy to pull off a ten inch hook set with the rod. Basically, whatever I'm about to do next, or I'm in the process of doing, I finish that motion into a hookset when a trout eats. This is far more efficient and effective than trying to force myself into strip setting always.
More on all of that in a podcast here:
troutbitten.com/2024/06/09/podcast-set-the-hook-all-about-different-hooksets-s11-ep8/
Good one you just made it ok to jerk the rod tip. I always feel like if someone sees me doing this they’ll be like stop that’s not normal. Only Bass fishermen do that. Also you just managed to hold my attention for 17min and not catch a single fish. 😊
Nice. Catching fish of overrated. Ha.
What gloves are you wearing sir. Thank you.
Here ya go.
troutbitten.com/2018/11/11/fly-fishing-in-the-winter-your-hands/
Thanks Dom and Josh. This is very helpful to see. Do you find most of the strikes are on the strip or the pause?
Hi Scott. Thanks, man. Most strikes are on the pause. Almost all streamer presentations are like that, if you think about it. Trout strike when you give them that moment of opportunity. While jigging, for example, fish eat on the fall, not on the way up.
Your question though -- you said the strip or the pause. But remember, with the jerk strip, the strip IS the pause.
Cheers.
Great video. Galloup just did a video on it with sink tip line. I was waiting for you to do one for euro streamers
Thanks very much. But to me there's no such thing as euro streamers. There are just streamers. And I fish them on a tight line, floating line or sinking line. I made the point in this video that everything I'm showing here is the same motions, regardless of the line being used. The line is irrelevant. The motions are what matter. Likewise, the streamers are (almost) irrelevant. What matters is the motion being created by the rod tip. Hope that makes sense.
For me the jerk strip has provided the most speed that you can get your fly to go on your retrieve
I agree. Really, the rod can move the fly like that. Great. And then in between rod motions we need to return the rod and recover slack. That's the jerk strip. For me, it's not just moving the fly fast. It's simply the handoff and coordination of both hands and the rod tip working together to produce just about any motion we can think of, at any angle, any speed, etc.
Great demonstration, easy to understand. I will definitely give this jerk strip a try this winter when I do a majority of my streamer fishing. Gotta ask what are the rubber bands over the gloves for?
Thanks, man. I appreciate that.
Regarding the rubber bands -- common question, here ya go.
troutbitten.com/2018/11/11/fly-fishing-in-the-winter-your-hands/
Dom, I was one of those that got to see you do it in person…and I am still working on getting it down
Hey now!
You got to see Dom jerk the rod and strip in person? Lucky.
gotta say.. with all the times my rod has slid down the side of my car and landed on the ground, i never thought to use my gas door as a rod prop.
Ha. Luckily mine is still manual and not an interior release. Easy peasy.
excellent. quick ... to the point ... move on. as it should be 👍. THE WAY to fish alaska.
Cheers.