David believes in a moderate action fly rod in order to not “bounce” fish. He also likes to use the small, graphite, automatic reels in order to pick up line quickly.
Knowing where fish are in the water is a huge deal. This particular day the water temps were right at 70 degrees and David said that he expected the fish to be up in the riffles. I like to think in terms of extreme opposites as well so in this case if the water temps were very low, we could expect the fish to be in the deep pools.
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