• Effective Saltwater Casting
• Fish Close First
• Line Management for Big Trout
• Casting in the Wind
• Extra Layers
• Maximize Fishing Opportunity
• Playing Fish
• Durable, High-performance Gear
• Layering for Winter Fishing
• Knots
• Flats Fishing
• Protect the Resource
• First Cast Quick Flick
• Trout Nymphing Tip
• Approaching the Stream

Maximize Fishing Opportunity

While fishing from a drift boat, do your best to minimize false casts. Most visiting anglers false cast excessively and miss opportunities at fishy water. As the boat is moving downstream with the current, the guide will be working to maintain boat position, and the angler should be casting their fly to the holding water. If a presentation is refused, the fly should be cast again with one false cast, at most, in between. This approach maximizes the amount of time the flies are in the water, and therefore, maximizes the amount of time they are available to be eaten.

Greg Bricker spends most of the year guiding for the Bozeman Angler on many of the Blue Ribbon trout streams of Southwest Montana, and can be found during the late fall/ early winter guiding clients on the tributaries of Lake Erie in his native Pennsylvania, chasing Great Lakes Steelhead.