Breaking Down Streamer Presentations

While fishing a streamer, we’re trying to make it look alive. That's the difference. Because, while fly fishing other styles, we spend so much of our time dead drifting dry flies and nymphs and trying to impart no motion, that switching to streamers is a relief. It’s liberating. It’s fun. And so many presentations — so many looks to the streamer — can be attractive and convincing. Because everything works sometimes. But day to day, some retrieves and presentations just work better. And there...