Top Ten Tips to Improve your Fly Fishing: Ian Troup

Ian Troup was a member of the winning Canadian International Fly Fishing Team in 2016. Here he distills his knowledge into ten valuable insights, and these are interspersed with myriads of gems to improve our Fly Fishing skills.
Recorded with the IZAAK WALTON FLY FISHING CLUB in January 2022.

[canadiangemstones]

He fishes dries on a 20’ leader... omfg. Respect.

[HondoTrailside]

I tried the method of tying flies on with the hemostat. The method I used was for the clinch knot, which used to be said to be a 65% knot. I never break it off, and recently saw data that it is 89 percent, and stronger than the Improved CK. 89% is perfect as it allows one to break off at the hook, should things go wrong, and in most trout applications the strength is still more than enough. The hemostat method worked great, until I started practicing it with smaller hooks, and light tippets. Horrendous messes ensued, as the hook catches on the hemostat, and even the tippet would run up the hinge and get caught. Seems useless for what I would mostly be fishing with in trout applications. 4x on my smallmouth flies, and it works great.

[joeboirier]

What the book you talk about if you dont mind