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Dan Wells: Cracking the Night Game — Estuaries, Big Flies, and Strategic Striper Fishing

Dan Wells: Cracking the Night Game — Estuaries, Big Flies, and Strategic Striper Fishing

Update: 2025-11-21
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In this episode, we sit down with analytical angler Dan Wells for one of the most detailed breakdowns of nighttime striper fly fishing you'll ever hear. Dan combines military-grade strategic thinking with years of obsessive local scouting to build a system for understanding tides, bait cycles, estuaries, and nighttime feeding behavior.

We cover everything from silver-side patterns to herring runs, eel and squid behavior, two-hand casting for big flies, and how to build a 30-minute fishing radius that consistently produces. If you love the craft of surfcasting or fly fishing — especially in Northeast estuaries — this is a masterclass.

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Dan Wells: Cracking the Night Game — Estuaries, Big Flies, and Strategic Striper Fishing

Dan Wells: Cracking the Night Game — Estuaries, Big Flies, and Strategic Striper Fishing

Peter Jenkins