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Fly fishing with dry flies is one of the most rewarding ways to catch trout, and one of the hardest things to learn well. In this episode of Untangled, Spencer sits down with Riley Bayles, an angler about two years into his fly fishing journey, to talk through what dry fly fishing actually looks like when you're still figuring it out. They get into why dry flies pulled him in, the parts of the presentation that gave him the most trouble, and whether a brand new angler is better off learning dries or nymphs first. Riley also covers how he keeps his dry flies floating through a full day on the water, how he thinks about size, shape, and color when matching a hatch, and the advice he'd give someone picking up a fly rod for the first time. This is the first episode of the Everyday Angler series, where we talk with anglers who fish on limited time and are still deep in the learning curve, because the angler a few steps ahead of you often has more useful answers than the expert who has been doing it for thirty years.
