Traveled #30 | Dry Fly Competition Tactics with Jack Arnot – Team USA Fly Fishing
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
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🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Jack Arnot, Team USA angler and dry fly tactician, is here to break down what it really takes to fish on the surface when the pressure's on. From the Colorado Rockies to the technical rivers of Europe, Jack shares what it's like to compete in world-class fly fishing events and how you can apply those same dry fly skills to your own local waters.
We get into everything from gear setups to scouting new water (even when nothing's rising), and why it's time to rethink what 7x and 8x tippet can do.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/778B
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| 0:00.0 | Today's guest grew up casting in Colorado's Eagle River Valley, joined Team USA as a teen, and now tests his dryfly game against the best anglers on the planet. |
| 0:11.5 | From the Freestone Creeks of the Rockies to the ultra-technical beats of Europe. |
| 0:15.9 | In this episode, we break down what it really takes to succeed with dry flies under pressure why a 10 foot three |
| 0:23.5 | weight with a two weight line might be your next best friend to how a longer leader and a hook |
| 0:29.7 | cast can change everything for you today by the end of this one you're going to rethink what's |
| 0:35.8 | possible with 7x and 8x tippet. |
| 0:38.2 | You're going to find out how to fish even when nothing's rising, |
| 0:41.1 | and you're going to see why the your approach to dries might just outfish that chubby Chernobyl. |
| 0:48.9 | Jack Arnott, Team USA angler and dry fly master is here to break down what it really takes to succeed with surface |
| 0:56.4 | flies, especially when the water is technical and the pressure is on. You're going to find out how |
| 1:01.3 | he scouts new rivers without seeing a single rise, the rod and line setup that we talked about |
| 1:06.3 | earlier and why most anglers are fishing flies that look too much like the rest of the flies. All right, there's so much on this one. You're going to love it. I know it. I want to give a big shout out. This episode of Traveld is presented by Yellowstone-Teton Territory, host of this year's World Championships for the youth and the women's team and the host for next year's world championships for the senior |
| 1:27.8 | team you're going to find out how to connect here we've got some great stuff going check out |
| 1:32.8 | yellowstone titan territory right now wetfly swing dot com slash titan all right here he is jack |
| 1:40.0 | are not you can find him at jack or not on instagram how you doing jack good good thank you guys |
| 1:47.7 | for having me really appreciate it yeah yeah this is going to be a good one today we're going to talk |
| 1:52.4 | about a you know at least one topic today talking about uh dry fly fishing competition |
| 1:57.0 | specifically we've been getting some questions from some of the listeners about that you're a |
| 2:01.9 | you're an expert i mean it really doesn't get any higher level than i think what you have under your |
| 2:05.9 | belt we'll talk about some of the championships and team USA we always love digging into that so |
| 2:11.5 | we're going to get into all that today i know you're traveling as well um and i want to hear an |
| 2:15.9 | update but um take us back real quick to the beginning, right to the start. |
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