And I’ll make several drifts through a likely spot, changing things because you may not hit the ideal drift first, second or third time, you can identify a likely spot, but you have to SEARCH it to find if fish are there because you cannot see the dynamics of the currents without drifting your nymphs through several times. I try to avoid casting where I think I could not retrieve the rig if I snag up.And if I have to kill the prime spot by recovering the rig, so be it. TAGS Night Fishing Euro-Nymphing the Mono Rig DIY friends versatility dorsey yarn indicator Central PA strategy tightline time dry flies Joey drifting podcast Wild Brown Trout flies fly box Whiskey tippet dead drift brookies catch and release fly rod Troutbitten Fly Box gear reading water friendship Backing Barrel History Fish Hard boys casting Night fishing with kids mono rig Namer Streamer fishing mousing Sighter Dry-Dropper Night Fishing Chapters favorite nymphing Fly rods tight line nymphing summer winter Recommended Fly Casting leaders solitude indicator nymphing river Stockies Big Trout summertime fishing exploration winter fly fishing tight Dylan brown trout nymphing tips big brown trout fly tying efficiency knots tight line indicator fishing George Harvey high water stocked trout wading Dad wild trout suspender fishing Discovery philosophy fishing tips nymphs angler types fall Peace conservation wet flies fly patterns Memories explore fighting fish walking tight lining Fifty Tips Wild vs Stocked Smith Fly Fishing Streamers fly line Aiden winter fishing dry fly fishingĮxcellent, totally agree, I’ll keep casting and changing rigs until I hook a tree or a snag and have to wade further in and retrieve the rig. Brown slid back under the dark spruce, and John moved upriver.
Generations of learned instinct made the decision for him. Hunkering under the safety of a foot-wide slab of spruce, he slid out for a moment, but he stopped. The grasshopper copy drifted like the real thing. John cast as close as he dared the second time, and the foam grasshopper landed within a foot of the roots. Bowled over and turned topsy-turvy, the mass had temporarily lodged at the outside bend of a side channel, awaiting the next major flood to come and plow it over again. It was a big chunk of tangled organic ropes separated from the earth and broken from its parent tree. He waded into the middle current and cast toward the roots until his yellow #6 Charlie Boy Hopper landed three feet from the root wad. My friend, John, played it cautious at the outside bend. But once I’m there, once I’m casting to the sweet spot, I don’t leave until I either hook up with a trout (or two, or three), or I hang up on an obstruction and must retrieve the fly. I work up to a prime lie, casting nearby as I approach it. READ: Troutbitten | Work into the Prime Spots - Fifty Tips #42 Instead of going for the jackpot on the fist cast, I like to pick off a few targets on the perimeter. I’ve previously written about working into the prime spots - about not aiming for the bullseye right away. I figure if it takes me two minutes to untangle a fly from a wet tree branch, and it takes me five minutes to tie a fly at the vise, then I win every time I rescue my fly. I don’t like leaving hooks and leader parts on the bottom of the river or the neighboring trees, and I don’t like the empty slot in my fly box. One point here: Most of the water I cast to is wadeable, and I’m the guy who goes in for the snag rather than breaking off the fly. Sure, there may be a pod of recently stocked fish hanging in the shade of the the bridge abutment, but I won’t give them all day to make a decision.
Later, I learned the distinction between stocked and wild trout. And I never much understood the allure of plunking a five gallon bucket on the bank and casting over and over to the same spot - to the same trout. I remember watching fishermen at the bridge holes when I was a boy. I fish the sweetest spots until I either hook a trout or I hang the fly on something other than a trout’s lip. And for that, I have a strategy - hang up or hookup. The challenge, then, is knowing when to give up the ship and knowing when to stay on. But moving on and working more water is my default approach. Hanging around in a tailout for an extra fifteen minutes may be wise if I see swirls and flashing trout at the lip. My days astream are a constant push and pull between reasons to stay and reasons to move on. Up top or underneath, we must cover water to catch trout in a river.
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