What do people mean when they say "greased line techniques "?
It also refers to casting at a certain angle and mending to present the fly broadside with a greased line.
Interesting. I see it mentioned a lot in Spey articles..
I learned something new today. This reads exactly like how I like to fish a partridge and orange on the bamboo rod on a warm summers day. Or at least the first 1/2 of the drift before the swing. Neat to discover another application.Fly broadside to the fish
Fly without drag ( tight line but not drag)
Fly traveling if the surface film ( though can be adapted to deep presentations)
Fly traveling more downstream than accross ( I think this part is very overlooked)
A.H.E. Wood the developer of the tactic fished the Carrington beat of the river Spey on Scotland. He knew where the salmon held in each run. Unlike what we do Wood fished the lies, not the runs. This wasn't a searching method. It was a way for him to offer the fish a different targeted presentation. We search for fish. Wood knew where the fish were.
You can mimic grease liners tactics down deep by using multi density lines.So I now need to figure out how beneficial this is with a deeply sunk fly. And how to do it correctly. I often feel like my fly broadside is ripping far too fast across current. Subsequent mends though pull it out of the section if the column I want to fish….sigh, more YouTube.
Couldn't be more wrong.The greased line is not a swing.. if the fly is traveling across stream it's not the greased line presentation.. that said the greased line can and most often does transition into the wet fly swing. But the swinging portion is not a greased line presentation.
Does any of this matter? No