ADVANCED COURSES
We have produced a series of advanced to expert-level fly fishing trout stream video courses for purchase. These are for purchase/stream/download at the following direct purchase links:
Sight-Nymphing Shallow Tailout Flat Rainbow Trout: Available as a stand alone purchase or by joining our advanced membership
This 37 minute course will change how you look at those long, flat, shallow tailout flats, introducing an opportunity that we enjoy: picking off individual trout where most anglers walk quickly past without any interest.
Tailout flats are one of the most boring, non-descript, featureless and often void of trout regions of a river. But they aren’t. Most fly fishers walk quickly past to get to the “good, interesting and fishy water” of riffles, features, slots and troughs. But you shouldn’t.
While the surface of tailout flats is often flat water, the bottom substrate of the river is often subtle waves of gravel and depressions with inset larger rock, all of which offers current break for many trout to take residence. It’s at this end-of-run prime lie location that we will discover trout stacked, feeding under just enough flow and depth cover.
We love to sight-fish, looking for specific, individual trout. Most fly fishers dismiss our efforts by saying “I can’t do that on my water”; “I don’t have a raised bank to stand upon to sight trout”; or “My river is too murky to sight trout”. In this video we fish a river with 2 to 4 feet of visibility and share exactly how we are so successful, while standing knee-deep in the water.
We want you to see how easily your success and catch rates can improve. We share from a point of view, wading perspective and overhead drone perspective to show what the trout are doing.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
1) Understanding why trout hold in tailout flats, what seasonal river flows offer.
2) What trout look like at depth and in murky water, how to observe their behaviour and how to determine how heavily their feeding activity.
3)The gear & setup needed and how to choose depth of feeding on subsurface flies.
4) The pace & cadence of operating on the slower, shallower waterscape of tailout flats.
5) Considerations of lighting and how that affects your position
6) Short line casting mending and management
7) The subtleties in our actions are what make all the difference
This production features 37 minutes of live, detailed insights in how we pick apart tailout flats, how we find individual trout and feed them at the depth they are willing to feed. ~ Dave & Amelia Jensen
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Pale Morning Dun Mayfly Hatch – THIS FEATURE SHORT COURSE IS AVAILABLE BY JOINING OUR DIGITAL MEMBERSHIP AT PATREON
It can never be said enough how much we value and thank you for your ongoing support of our content:) It’s the hours of time spent filming, sorting, editing, refining and producing we put into a short course like this one that is made possible because of all of you.
It’s best to view this video through the Patreon app. To get the most immersive view of the PMD mayflies up-close, stunning trout rising footage and the overall artistry of this video we suggest casting this to a larger screen TV if that’s available to you.
In this course you will learn:
1) The specific water types you’ll find PMD hatches occurring
2) The most common colors & sizes of the PMD body and wings to identify the bug while on the water AND for creating your own fly patterns & or buying flies)
3) The Leader & tippet we commonly use AND when and where to size down to lighter tippet
4) Timing of the hatch in relation to time of day and weather conditions
5) This is a great hatch to watch trout freely feed and the lessons you can learn of trout behavior from that time.
6) What stage of the PMD hatch trout will key into within various water types
7) What specific water types provide the most abundant collections of these mayflies to allow for consistent and often stationed feeding risers
8) How low light /cloudy days bring trout searching for PMD’s in places they otherwise wouldn’t hold in.
9) Dead drifting mayflies is a myth and that subtle movement often induces trout to eat
10) Why trout will favor a certain stage of the hatch & how that ties into energy expenditure
11) Why imperfections in any fly imitation is an advantage when fishing this hatch
12) How overlapping stages of the hatch can require examining the rise form to know what to use
13)The misnomer that subtle sips always indicate cripple or spinner eats
14) Why unweighted PTN’s are effective during a PMD hatch
There’s a lot to be learned in the words that have been scripted to each scene in the first 15 minutes of this video. It’s important to listen as much as watch this video. From there you can look to applying this knowledge and understanding to your fly fishing and your success during any PMD hatch will increase. From the 15:00 minute mark onwards we give examples of fly fishing this hatch on various water types including:
1) Glides, Flats & Tailouts
2) Head of a Run Shelf & Inside Seam
3) Lateral Deflection Seam – Slower Edge & Bucket
4) Extreme Tailout Seam Collection
THIS FEATURE SHORT COURSE IS AVAILABLE BY JOINING OUR DIGITAL MEMBERSHIP AT PATREON
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Have you ever encountered a scenario where there are two, three or four+ trout feeding or rising in close proximity? Are you hoping to catch one or do you see the pathway to catching every one? That’s exactly what I do on a trout stream: I try to figure out how to successively pick off each one while giving myself the best chance to catch the next, then the next and work my way through the pod of feeding trout.
What is it that allows some trout anglers to catch multiple trout at will in a tight focused area of any stream? Dave has long excelled at exactly this. In this course he walks through what makes him so consistently successful. This is the long-requested video as he breaks down what “it” is before sharing examples of where & how he catches 2, 3 or 4 feeding trout from close-quarters.
“The first 44 minutes of this course was a gold mine of information for any serious trout hunter. I plan on listening to it time and time again during the course of the season.” – Rick B.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
1) Understanding trout behavior, curiosity & responsiveness, how to apply that knowledge to every trout
2) How certain tactics can specifically be applied to get a trout to do what you want
3) When, how and why to apply a certain approach, cast or tactic and their timing.
4) How to control the show in applying the above on the first and successive trout as they relate to each other.
5)The subtleties in our actions are what make all the difference
We want you to see how easily your success and catch rates can improve.
This production features 45 minutes of Dave giving the detailed insights in how he picks apart trout streams and rising/nymphing/feeding fish in close proximity. The remaining 2hrs+ details real-life, on-the-water examples of how he picks 2, 3 and 4 solid trout from tight micro-habitats in a variety of trout streams.
Total Running Time 2hrs 48min
This is available for purchase to download/stream through this link DOWNLOAD / STREAM THIS COURSE NOW!
Dave Jensen
I have long been asked to share my fly boxes, why I tie what I do, how, how to fish the flies and why I’ve come to the patterns and sizes I fish when & where I do – AKA – what I can get away with, when & where! In this video we share all the above. By the end of this video you will learn:
– Why I tie the pheasant tail nymph in the proportions I do & what hooks I use
– What water types I use each in
– What bead head sizes we use on varying hook sizes and why I do so
– What food sources I’m imitating
– How to project depth to feeding zone based on fly dynamics and weight
– Using a trout’s lateral line vs depth-zone feeding
– When to use different combinations of flies and weights in varying water types and, quite frankly, heaps more.
– In this 46 minute production I break it down so you will have the transformative confidence of either tying or custom purchasing pheasant tail nymphs and knowing how to apply these dynamics to various water types and fish feeding behaviour. I hope you find this valuable. ~ Dave Jensen
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FLY FISHING TROUT STREAMS MASTER COURSE!
This is “it”, our all-encompassing course from elementary gear we use through how we approach, cast & set up at expert levels. We cover 18 deep-dive chapters that starts with why we use what gear, right through the expert levels that we employ to make our social media shares look “easy”:
Gear
Long Leader Casting
The Rolling Lift
Bow & Arrow Cast DEEP-DIVE
Raised, Cross-Body Reach Cast
Casting Over Casting Lanes
Lateral Line DEEP DIVE Part 1 & 2
Finding Your Trout Stream DEEP DIVE – Part 1, 2 & 3
Developing A Mindset & Plan DEEP DIVE Part 1 & 2
Your Best Position
Your Best Approach
Your Best Hook Set
How Best To Fight Trout To The Net
Applying Advanced Knowledge on Small Trout Streams
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I have long been asked to share my fly boxes, why I tie what I do, how, how to fish the flies and why I’ve come to the patterns and sizes I fish when & where I do – AKA – what I can get away with, when & where! In this video we share all the above as it pertains to my woolly buggers, muddlers & small streamers fly box!
By the end of this video you will learn:
– Why I tie the few patterns I do, discuss how I tie them, to what proportions.
– What water types, structure and habitats I target
– What bead head sizes I use on varying hook sizes
– What food sources I’m imitating – How to project depth to feeding zone based on fly dynamics and weight
– Using a trout’s lateral line vs depth-zone feeding
– When to use different combinations of flies and weights in varying water types
– IMPORTANT Discussion of approach, casting locations, cast types, DRP (Depth, Retrieve, Presentation), Bad Cast Recovery, the WIGGLE LIFT, and heaps of subtle tips & tactics sprinkled throughout.
In this 1hr 29 min production we break it down so you will have the transformative confidence of either tying or custom purchasing these streamers and knowing how to apply these dynamics to various water types and fish feeding behaviour. We hope you find this valuable. Dave & Amelia