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Best of all, all you need is a cheap hole punch

I repeat until I hit the bottom, and once I hit the bottom, I make it one foot shallower so my bait stays off the bottom and in the strike zone

Focus your casts around chunk rock banks or roll a crankbait through banks with a chunk rock and pea gravel blend to pick up more fish

This piece is definitely one for the enthusiast as we look at the past ten years of reel development and we pick ten that we believe had the biggest impact on anglers, fishing techniques, value for money and technology

But budgets are never big enough, so sometimes it makes more sense to just start with a reel that you know will work reasonably well for your preferred fly fishing application