A lot of fly fishing progress happens when you stop treating techniques as separate lanes and start asking what happens if you combine them.

That curiosity is the center of today's conversation, Brian DeLoch, a certified FFI casting instructor who spends his time fishing and teachings throughout the southeast,

from the legendary tailwaters of the South Holston to the warm water rivers

and carp fisheries that he's deeply involved with with flyfishers international.

In this episode, we're going to get into the technique.

Brian's been developing the blends euro-niffing principles with streamer fishing,

using heavy jig-style flies, stout leaders, and intentional retrieves to start and target predatory

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big trip and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. Today, Brian DeLoch

is going to describe how he combines your own infant concepts and streamer fishing in one versatile system.

Why weight, drift, and retrieve matter more than tippet visibility in this approach.

We're going to find out why a jig hooks are key and why you don't need to spend a lot of money on them.

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in retrieve and contrast trigger the strike all right we're going to get into it there's a ton of

information here today so uh you can find brian at fly fisher's international here he is brian

how you do brian doing great getting ready for this huge winter storm set to hit us this weekend.

Oh, Roy, you guys getting some good winter weather there?

Oh, yeah. I'm excited about it. Looking about 12 uninterrupted days, a hard freeze.

So it's going to be better for the rivers, better for the trout, and it'll send the mosquitoes and ticks back to hell where they belong.

Oh, right.

And remind us again what part of the country you're in right now. I'm in Cleveland, Tennessee, just outside Chattanooga, about an hour and a half south of Knoxville. Knoxville, okay. Yeah. And so this time of year, has it been pretty warm or pretty mild so far? It's been freezing cold. I went fishing last weekend and I had to keep cleaning the ice off of my guides and or as my buddy Mike Helms says, my homemade

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