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Trout Tips: It starts with the grip

Trout Tips: It starts with the grip

Submitted by chris_hunt on Mon, 2016-11-28 09:28

Trout Magazine

It all starts with the grip. With the thumb on top, both casting and battling fish are easier.


Editor's note: The following is excerpted from The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing, by Kirk Deeter and Charlie Meyers.


In golf, nine of out 10 swing flaws can be traced to your hands and
how you hold the club. The same is true of the fly cast. It starts in
your grip. You want to be firm, without over-clutching the handle. The
line goes where the rod tip directs it to go, and your grip dictates the
direction of the rod tip. Because of this, line your hand up so that it
can control how the rod flexes. Hold your thumb on top of the grip,
then snap those casts. If you visualize looking "through" your casting
thumbnail, odds are that the line will unfurl right through that window.


— Kirk Deeter

New culvert on Pa.'s Little Lyman Run opens up nearly 8 stream miles

By Amy Wolfe

In terms of fish passage, a certain culvert on Pennsylvania’s Little Lyman Run in Potter County was about a bad as it gets.

Only 1.9 percent of predicted flows would allow adult brook trout to make it through the culvert on the small tributary to Cross Fork Creek, according to a TU aquatic organism passage inventory.

That number is now 100 percent, thanks to a culvert replacement project completed this summer.

Replacing the undersized culvert not only opens up 7.8 stream miles of coldwater trout habitat, it also will result in reducing 3.6 tons of annual nonpoint sediment inputs. Managing erosion from undersized or failing culverts is often burdensome for local townships.

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