Top Fly Fishing Mistakes to Avoid and Most Listened to Podcasts of 2024
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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We highlight the top 10 fly fishing mistakes to avoid from the top podcast episodes from 2024.
We have some of the best fly anglers in the country providing a few of the biggest mistakes to avoid in 2025 and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | I've got a quick solo episode and big announcement today as we celebrate |
| 0:06.0 | 2004 and look into 2025. This quick podcast episode will cover the top 10 most |
| 0:12.4 | listen to podcast episodes of 2024 and these episodes will include some of our biggest |
| 0:17.7 | guests of the year. Plus I have the top fly fishing mistakes to avoid this year and the number one thing that's going to be a game changer, especially if you're struggling with your flycast. Hey, I'm Dave, host of the Wetfly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing most of my life, and now I have created one of the largest fly fishing podcasts in this country. I've also just launched a YouTube channel, and right now you can check it out. |
| 0:39.4 | You can go to wetfly swing.com slash mistakes right now, and you can watch this episode that |
| 0:44.9 | you're going to hear right now fully on video, and we got a couple little bonuses there. |
| 0:49.8 | So if you get a chance, check it out right now, wetfly swing.com slash mistakes, or you can just |
| 0:53.8 | listen along and you can listen by audio to the full episode. |
| 0:57.5 | Okay, let's jump into it and let's hear this new audio, video, YouTube podcast right now. |
| 1:05.1 | Do you know the story of the 12-year-old girl who trained in just a few years to become the |
| 1:09.6 | greatest flycasting champion and beat everyone in the world. |
| 1:14.1 | I'm going to show you the biggest casting and fly fishing mistakes to avoid this year to have more success on the water. |
| 1:21.4 | But before I get into this number one mistake to avoid and to assure that you have more success casting and fishing on the water this |
| 1:29.5 | year. I've got the top 10 list, the top 10 list of episodes from the past year. These are the |
| 1:35.9 | most listened to podcast episodes. And each one I have a top mistake to avoid. So this is going to be |
| 1:40.7 | the top 10 mistakes to avoid for fly casting and fly fishing. |
| 1:45.0 | Let's get into it. All right. We're going to start with number 10. The top mistake to avoid this |
| 1:50.9 | year. This comes from Gilbert Rowley, episode 576 of the Wefly Swing podcast. And the top mistake that |
| 1:56.7 | he noted was incorrect rod angle when landing fish. What he says to do instead is to try keeping |
| 2:03.3 | the rod positioning upstream when you're fighting a fish that's downstream of you and keep the |
| 2:08.0 | rod tip as low as possible. This reduces stress on the line and will assure that you have more |
| 2:14.4 | success landing fish this year. Let's go to number nine. This one comes from Phil Roy in the Littoral Zone podcast, episode 576, and he says, |
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