Fighting Big Fish #5 - Side Pressure!
About this episode
This episode discusses the importance of side pressure in fighting big fish, particularly trout, and how it affects control and leverage during the catch.
Side pressure puts real leverage on a fish. It's where control begins and power originates. All the other skills before this one set us up to maximize side pressure, with the right angles and a great plan for landing the trout of a lifetime. I think the opposite of side pressure is upward pressure, or pulling up with the rod tip, and we don't want to fight the fish at the surface. So while side pressure can keep the fish lower in the water column, upward pressure brings a trout to the top, of...
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