If you had the choice between sight fishing for big trout or nymphing down deep, which one would you choose?

And what about streamers versus dries? Do you have an opinion there? And which of all these techniques do you need more help with right now?

Today's guest is an expert in all of these disciplines, and today we're going to help you build a foundation to better understand when and where to sight fish effectively for big trout. This is the wetfly swing

podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best

resources and tools to prepare for that big trip and what you can do to give back the fish species

we all love. Hey, I'm Dave, host the wetfly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a

kid. I grew up around a fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing podcast in the

country. And I've also interviewed more of the greatest fly anglers than just about anyone out there.

Landon Mayer, South Platte Guide, Master Show Speaker, and our Trout School Professor will be

walking us through the trip. We're heading out to this year. You're going to find out how to

prepare for a trip if you're focused on sight fishing for Big Trout. What reactions from fish

really mean, how to decide when to fish deep or go shallow, and what you should do when

you can't see the fish. We're going to talk about it all today. Plus, you're going to get Landon's

best health tip on eating, and we're going to find out what he's saying no to this year. This is a good

discussion. We've got a big food tip for you on this one. Back to the dream stream. Here he is,

Landon Mayer, from landen mayer flyfishing

dot com how you doing landin i'm great great to have a beautiful day outside and be in the podcast

to start things off with you thanks for having me awesome yeah this is going to be uh i'm excited for this

one because we've got a big trip um with you this next year we're going to be fishing and learning some amazing stuff so we're going to be, I'm excited for this one because we've got a big trip with you this next year. We're going to be fishing and learning some amazing stuff. So we're going to talk about that today. We're also in the midst of giving away a spot for one person, one lucky person to come along on the trip. So we'll be talking that as we go here today. But maybe give us an update. You were on the littoral zone, which is Phil Roy is kind of our stillwater stuff in our network. I think it was a few months ago, or in March, I guess. Talk about that. What have you been up to since that podcast with Phil? Oh, man, it's been an amazing year. We've actually had really good water. We ended up getting a good late snowpack. When Phil was here, we hit some of the rivers that were starting to come up and flow.

But now that we're moving into the end of the year, it's just been packed with stillwater hatches, river hatches, guiding full-time.

I was happy to finally complete a long time coming, but a wonderful project, the the flytime video which is going to be out

a mastery series with headwater books media so that's going to be out in November and working

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