Fighting Big Fish #5 - Side Pressure!

Side pressure is leverage.

Um, it, it, it's power, right? And it's control.

It, it's kind of like making quick work of even the strongest trout, the biggest trout that you're ever gonna have.

You can make quick work of 'em if you can get that side pressure right.

Now, I'll mention again the Fighting Big Fish article series on the Trout Pittman website.

A bunch of what we're talking about in this whole series is, i- is over there in written form, and specifically, if you can y- I mean, you can Google the title Trout Pittman Fighting Big Fish with Side Pressure, and you'll learn a lot more about where, what we're talking about here, what it is and how to use it.

That's the title.

In this, in, in that article are my thoughts, but I'm glad to have my friends here because now we can get their thoughts, right? So guys, I said in the intro that the opposite of side pressure, to me, is upward pressure, pulling up.

You agree with that? Do you think of it that way? What are your thoughts?

Yeah.

I don't like straight up pressure because if you're pulling up on a fish, you're bringing it up in the current system.

Mm.

And the higher the fish is, the faster that current is.

Yeah.

And so the faster you have a river, the worse off you are.

And so even, even if it's a couple inches of keeping that fish underneath the surface-

Yeah

... you know, it, it helps.

I guess think of it like this.

Is there another direction? I'm saying side pressure, upward pressure.

Is there a third direction that I can't think of?

So let's talk about side pressure and how far you are off the water.

Okay.

So, like, you could say, "Okay, I have sight.

Right? The fish is at a 45 above me-