Martin Montejano

I think it’s safe to say that we all get excitement out of that moment when a fish comes up to the surface and takes your fly with a splashy display, or when the line tightens on a subsurface drift leading to a hook set and the wriggle at the end of the line. In this, we see that our presentation of the fly was convincing enough to get the fish to bite.

We make fishing as simple, or as complicated as we want. We all choose which aspects of fishing we find important, and those aspects should be ones that help us enjoy our time on the water.

The dead drift is a simple and effective way to present the fly. We learn it early on, and it is very intuitive when fishing tenkara.