Joe Rotter goes solo and covers a week of fishing highlights: a long-running blue-winged olive hatch, precise small-dry fly tactics with ultralight rods, and tips for slow hook sets. He also talks about jig streamers, a strong worm bite after rain, new Gray Watermaster Kodiaks at Red's, and the value of vintage and modern Sage rods. Listeners get practical gear notes (sink-tip and single-fly rigs, New Zealand indicators), tying tips for squirmy worms, and advice for spotting and targeting pods o

The upper Owens River. Mid-day hatches of blue wing olive mayflies are bringing the resident eight to 12 inch wild brown and rainbow trout to the surface to feed on the hatching blue wing olive duns. Fish with a size 18 Adams parachute, size 18 olive sparkle dun, size 18 blue wing olive parachute and a size 18 pheasant tail paranymph. There are a few trophy rainbow trout in the system. Work size 12 stoner nymphs, size 12 green/gold wire Prince nymphs and size 12 gold ribbed hare’s ears in the de

Here's a snippet of today's YouTube video: Spring Blue-Winged Olives. See the full video at this link: https://youtu.be/FOMVDXC6xe8 it's full of tips and tactics and some gorgeous vignettes of rising fish | Jensen Fly Fishing