We’ve often recommended streamer tactics that break the conventional long-distance mold. That is, presentations that eschew long casts and long swings or retrieves in favor of working up close and personal. It’s easy to recommend this approach with confidence, as these short-distance tactics work and work well on rivers, streams, and creeks all over the world.

As a lifelong trout angler, I’ve always found it fascinating how the same stretch of water will fish completely differently at certain times of the day. It shouldn’t be surprising, considering how environmental factors like light and temperature change the behavior of trout as the day goes on, but I’m often blown away at how any given run might seem completely devoid of fish in the morning, and then loaded with aggressive trout as the sun dips behind the mountains.