5 Fly Fishing Skills to Master in 2025 | Ep. 108

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About this video: What fly fishing skills are the most important? And which ones will help you catch more fish on a fly rod? In this episode of Untangled, Spencer shares 5 fly fishing skills he's learned that will make the biggest difference in your success out on the water. Mastering these will help you catch more fish.

You'll also learn about:
- How to interpret CFS data
- How much wind is too much for fly fishing, and what it feels like
- Setting your drag for different fish fighting situations
- How to properly position your strike indicator

#venturesflyco #livereellife #flyfishing #beginnerflyfishing #howtoflyfish

[TheKrazykris]

After a few years of fly fishing, I noticed that I wasn't really doing any better. I decided to leave all my spinner gear at home and only bring my fly gear. It forced me to really look around and make good decisions for fly selection, presentation, etc. I was using the spinning gear as a handicap, and I needed to remove it to get better.

[chasselynch]

I know you and Alex are super busy, but id love to be on a pod cast with y'all, a raw Q+A about Pennsylvania fly fishing and tying ..

[chasselynch]

While I tie up this quills I'll listen, I'm sure the content will be 🔥

[DanielBrownVlogs]

Happy new year Mr Durrant, Mr stulce and everyone reading this

[adrummer]

I just need to fish more!

Get so caught in work and life and spend more time watching than doing! lol

[alanwagner]

Another great episode. I love the reassurance to go deep with each style of fly fishing, instead of jumping from nymphs to dries to streamers.

[JMB.]

Hello I've only been watching this podcast for the past month I love it but I don't think you have covered what attracter patterns you should use when you don't see and fish as well what patterns are the best for graling thanks keep it up

[coreyreeder]

I do feel a lot more confident about my New Year’s Eve selection of buffalo wings 😉👍. Thanks for the encouragement to keep getting better

[Flyfishworld-Solo]

'patience is a fishermans biggest stranth and weekness'

[tenkarapondfishing]

Spencer, while I agree with some of your top five, I really think you're missing a few.

If a fly fisher worked on all five of your tips, and made real progress, but doesn't know the likely lies of trout in a stream, they're not gonna be putting many fish in the net!

Learning to read the water is certainly a top five skill to work on. For the great majority of the time, for most of us, we're not 'sight fishing' or casting to rising fish. We're prospecting. If you're on a sizeable stream that perhaps is new to you, and you're making perfect casts with perfect presentation, but to water that's too turbulent, or too still, or too....whatever....you're not gonna be successful.

I would also push back on your 'pick the right fly'. The great Lefty Kreh often said that the very LAST thing to change is the fly. While I won't dispute that there are certain streams and times of year when very specific hatches occur, and you better have that specific bug, in several life stages, for the great majority of the time the right size and profile nymph dead drifted through a likely run is gonna work equally well, whether it's a Prince beadhead, a perdigon, or a pheasant tail.

Lastly, in your top five, where are:

Line management (including slack(
Mending
Proper positioning even before you make your cast
Hooksets

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[ianw]

Please add bookmarks on your videos so we can skip all the flannel. The 1st of the 5 skills is not even mentioned until 8 minutes and 40 seconds into the video!