Should you waste any time fishing the deeper waters of a stillwater lake?

Why go deep when trout feed a majority of their time in the shallows?

Denny Rickards was on the podcast in episode 64 and drove home this point in a number of tips and tricks.

And this episode is the most replayed episode in the history of the Webfly Swing podcast.

So today you will get a

summary of some of the best tips from that episode on catching trophy trout in still waters.

Hey, I'm Dave, host of the wetfly swing podcast. I've created one of the largest fly fishing

podcasts in this country. And I've interviewed more of the greatest fly anglers than just about

anyone out there. And now I'm soloing today so you can get a quick

blast of knowledge to improve your Stillwater game. Today, you are going to learn the seven

biggest takeaways from the big episode with Denny, including a tip on presentation, how to choose

the right fly and where to fish based on time of day plus much more. But before I get into

the big tips with Denny, I want to share a little story from my Stillwater Pass. I was fishing a

moderate-sized lake off the mountain. This is a lake that we'd fish quite a bit and because of its

location was fairly easily accessible on the north side of the mountain. And it was just one of those days.

Everything was kind of normal.

We were fishing.

And as I remember, fishing wasn't too great, but we started to see some clouds rolling in.

And it started getting darker.

And you could just see it coming.

And I noticed my dad and Gene, they were in in a drift boat and they had started pulling to the

north side of the lake and I could see them kind of getting out and and I was in I think at the time

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