Continuing our series on streamers…..

Finally, what’s the best way to get a great streamer drift along structure or an undercut bank?  Seems like I’m always directly across from the bank or structure I want to swim my streamer by. 

The key is obviously to get the fly to swim along the bank instead casting directly across and retrieving the streamer away from the bank.

Try this approach -  cast directly across but use a wide reach cast, mending as much line as possible in the air before the line hits the water, putting your line at a right angle downstream from the fly.   Work the fly as it swims downstream along the bank, keeping tension as the current pulls against the belly of the line.

Your undercut bank drift will be much more consistent and productive….

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