Thanks for this post. I give him a lot of credit for the content, time, and effort he puts into his brand. The guy clearly knows what he is doing.
That said, I come away from this video with the same two questions I have with most Troutbitten content.
1. When does he move off the mono-rig to a floating fly line and the Harvey leader? Specifically, when he say “dry/dropper” does he mean a dry with a weighted nymph that still propels a mono rig? When he says “single dry fly” does that mean floating line and Harvey leader?
2. What does he do in scenarios where 30’+ casts are required? Does he move to a spinning rod (which he mentioned for Salt)? Would he simply choose not to fish a dry fly hatch on the Delaware?
Honestly, it seems he is being intentionally ambiguous to downplay the limitations of his mono-rig method (brand). That is, there is more calculated sales & marketing behind this than he’d like us to think.
It’s not that any of this matters all that much, and it’s clearly all down the rabbit hole gear nerd stuff, but it is very difficult for me to have an opinion on the gear he recommends (the point of the video and referenced article) given what I’ll call this intentional ambiguity.
