Old-School Streamer Style, with Dom Swentosky

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

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🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week I interview Dom Swentosky of the Troutbitten blog, which is one of my favorites because I like the way he thinks about fishing problems and solutions. We titled it “Old School Streamer Fishing” and that’s how it starts, but Dom also discusses an innovative way of fishing streamers on mono, on a tight line, similar to the way a lot of people fish nymphs today. So in my view it’s a mix of old and new techniques. In the Fly Box this week, we have the following questions: What kind of sinking line do I need for walleyes in 10 feet of water? What is the best way to organize fly-tying material? Do you have a good way of testing streamer patterns during the winter when you can’t fish them? Does it matter what kind of material I use for wings on bonefish flies? How do I modify my knotless leader? Do you have any suggestions for fishing beaver ponds? What suggestions do you have for swinging steelhead flies when the water depth varies greatly? How can I fish leech imitations in a river that is 15 to 30 feet deep for walleyes? What is the best way to fish an incoming tide for stripers? How should I target sharks on the fly? How do I catch carp in a deep muddy lake where they don’t come into the shallows except to spawn?

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0:00.0	Today on the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast
0:03.4	By pausing its position sometimes you'll get a strike
0:06.2	But and from there I might start to do jigs and strips and bring it across the current.
0:11.4	It doesn't have to be real slow. You don't have to work the stream
0:15.8	or slow for it to be an old school streamer style. You just don't want to be using big flies,
0:22.1	covering a whole lot of water and you want to look available.
0:27.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being recorded on
0:37.6	February 20th, 2019 and just heard an excerpt of my interview with Dominic Swantowski of the blog Trout Bitten.
0:52.2	And I really like the way he thinks and talking about
0:57.2	streamers but we're talking about more traditional ways of fishing stream, both traditional and then he has a way of fishing streamers on a tight line, which is quite interesting. I know we've done a lot of streamer
1:11.8	podcast lately, but it's a popular thing and it's a good topic for a winter
1:16.8	and early spring so I thought I would give you just another angle on streamer
1:21.7	fishing and if another angle on streamer fishing.
1:24.1	And if you would like to suggest a topic or ask a question, you can get hold of me at by email at podcast at Orvis.com or you can call up and leave a
1:39.2	voice message at 802 36 362, 88000.
1:46.8	Before we go and talk to Dominic,
1:49.3	let's answer some questions on the flybox. The first one is from Sam, from Rhode Island.
2:05.0	I have a question about fishing around the tides that I am hoping you can answer on the podcast.
2:10.0	First some context. I do most of my striped bass fishing in Rhode Island using
2:15.8	trout and salmon techniques swings dead drifts etc this is a wonderful way to
2:21.1	fish but I find that it only works on a dropping tide when a salt pond or tidal river is being drained into a larger body of water.
2:28.0	Fish stack up in the current at the mouth of the pond or tidal river and eat the baitfish that are swept out of the protective estuarine habitat.
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