Landing Big Fish: 5 Tips (Fly Fishing)
3 min readFeb 5, 2024
To be a true angler you need to experience the heartbreak of losing a big fish. Here’s how to stack the odds in your favor so that doesn’t happen…
The overall goal of fighting a fish is to apply sideways pressure and to use your rod to feather and maneuver the fish against the direction they want to swim, eventually leading them to your net/hand. If only it happened that simply every time. Alas…