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Fishing through climate change, with John Gierach

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

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Tips for Fly Fishing

You can't just stretch it once during the season. You've got that thin running line and you need that to be able to shoot a lot of line. The only other thing you can do is to when you strip in line, try to be a little bit more precise about placing the line in the stripping basket if you can. A line that's a little slipper, a little slicker, will tend to shoot better and tangle less. Don't use any kind of line dressing or any kind of potion on the fly line. Just clean it off and it'll shoot fine. It'll shoot better actually when you clean it.

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