How to Select a Dry Fly // Riverside Chat 

Congrats on your 25th year of guiding Joe. Thanks for sharing your years of experience. In my opinion, this is the best RU-vid dry fly tutorial.

I never knew I wanted shrimp tater tots until I watched this video

Joe- your RU-vid content has proved to be absolutely as useful as the best of them. No bullcrap posturing or dumb social media garbage. I’ve got a cuz in Yakima- I’m coming to Reds and book a trip on the yak. 🤘🤘🤘

@15:35, CDC = Cul de Canard which translates from French to Duck Butt. These feathers are naturally coated by the oils from the duck’s ass glands. They actually used to sell this oil for these specific feathers. I still have some from eons ago. You’re not supposed to use floatant on CDC feathers. Anyway, I’m sure you knew all of this, Joe.

Professor Rotter one of your best ever video. So much great information. We got 25 years of experience and information from you. WELL DONE

Sure you heard this before, but the phone ringing in your intro gets me every time! lol I always end up looking at my phone

Awesome video. I agree , I hate Flyagra . You’re right , it’s basically charcoal lighter . I think it should be outlawed. Much better options. Best!

There's a lot of good educational content out there and of course, some not so great. I find your videos to be the most valuable and helpful. You are an excellent and natural coach. My river (the Lower Sacramento) is different from yours. But there are always universal principles and you hit those spot on.

Great info!-looking forward to the series. thanks

I was recently still water fishing and threw my whole fly box at it and nothing. I came there to skate larger drys, but wasn't getting anything so I matched the hatch and tied a size 16 Kings river caddies. I was bringing the line back, talking to my GF, not any paying attention and had my first strike. So the trout were taking a Kings river caddis on the strip. They striked really hard, it's like a streamer strike. Now I know to use darker profiles there, it was tied with dark turkey for wings, dark brown hackle, short stout gray body. And I believe my retrieve was too fast for 99% of the day. They wouldn't take anything that was static or too slow. I could see may flies skim the water to lay eggs. So if I just abstracted that like a Picasso, it would be small, dark, and slow (~3-4" per second). I was using 4X SA absolute trout stealth, It's so supple, it behaves like a 7X but the diameter of 4X. It maybe too supple for certain applications.

When "chucking" those huge dries, what weight and line do you use?

A question: Assume you are limited to having 10 dry flies in your Yakima River fly box. What would you bring?

Tater tot shrimp😂 wait is that really a thing

What are those creatures flying around in the background? Shrimp Tater tots?