Radical fishing tips

Radical Fly Design's tips for the fly fisher
If you follow our simple advice, you will increase your contact with fish. Most likely, you will multiply the frequency of contact. The advice is in order of priority.

Prerequisite for all subsequent advice: The fish must be present where you are fishing.
It doesn't matter if you have the world's finest fishing equipment, the most delicate flies, or a finely honed casting technique, if there are no fish there!

Radical tip #1: Always look for signs on the surface.
Give it about 20 - 30 min. No sign, no fish, you have to move on!

Radical tip #2: Especially applies to salmon fishing in rivers. Calculate the time of the run!
Here you can easily calculate when the fish will arrive at your location in the river. The majority of the fish start their migration from the river mouth about 2 hours before high tide to one hour after. You can also use this timing to follow the run. That is, move further and further up the river so that you receive the fish when it arrives at your location.

Radical tip #3: Fish at the height where the fish stands!
Especially important when fishing for salmon when the river is cold and big (early in the season). You have to get down to the fish. If you don't have contact with the bottom, switch to a higher sink rate on the line and sink tip.
To get down quickly, use heavy flies/cone heads. Let the fly dead drift for a few seconds, walk a few steps downstream. Now you are down where the fish is.

Radical tip #4: Fish in the path where the fish swims! This applies especially to salmon fishing in rivers. You need to observe the path of the fish in the river. It often has a fixed pattern based on the shape of the river, water flow and current conditions. Mend upstream so that you get an L shape on the line. This allows you to control the fly so that it stays in the fish's swimming path.

Radical tip #5: Seek out and listen to advice from those with more experience!
But don't fall into the trap of following in the same footsteps. Don't become static. Find your own path. Try out new places. Vary with different casting techniques, fly patterns and sink rates. Challenge the established. You will be surprised at how many new opportunities open up and the increase in the number of "strikes". And before you know it, you are the one being asked for advice :-) Share your experiences. Do good to others, and contribute to increased fishing pleasure, interest and recruitment.