Loon University: How To Strip Set with Captain Patrick MacKenzie
Improve your striped bass hookup ratio with Captain Patrick MacKenzie's simple strip-set technique for fishing large flies and sinking lines in shallow water.
We recently headed to Alabama with Adam Hudson of Blue Line Flies to explore the southern boundary of the smallmouth bass’ native range. In a region dominated by gear fishing, Adam fools these beautiful, hard fighting smallmouth bass while casting fly patterns on what locals call “long rods” (fly rods).