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What would you use in brown trout water in late spring in this hole?
Any tricks to recommend?
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What would you use in brown trout water in late spring in this hole?
Any tricks to recommend?
Dry and a dropper starting just out from where the bottom falls away and working closer to the far bank with each cast. Let each drift work all of the way down before lifting it for the next cast. I'd look to keep the rod tip down and mend as gently as I could. I would try to be ready for, but not really expect a strike before my cast reached the foam. Probably try one cast before the foam. All of this presupposes that the angler ni front of me isn't actually there. If he was, I'd wait or move on.
Ed
P.S. In the interest of honesty, I would probably hang both flies in the brush on the opposite shore then put down the pool for half a day clomping over to retrieve them. Those who have seen me cast can confirm...
Oooh, that looks GOOD!
Late Spring, eh? A big black and/or yellow streamer.
Tricks? Heh heh, yeah...tell the guy in front of you that there's a HUGE Brown in a secret little pool about 2 miles downstream! :lol:
I'd use a Jax Roughy size 16. Fished with anticipation and joy with a bit of excitement thrown in for fun. Jax
I would start above the hole. I'd put on a wooly bugger, size and the color of the sculpin in the stream. I would cast down and across toward the bank but above the entry of the hole. Then I would mend so as to create slack so the fly will sink. Depending on the casting angle downstream and the current I was casting across, I would throw a slack line mend into the drift. If there is a slip of fast water that you are casting across, the mend would need an upstream component to prevent the faster current from dragging the fly toward the surface and across away from the bank toward the angler
When I judge the fly to be just at entry (lip) of the pool, I would throw a mend to the left (across toward the middle of the stream) to make the fly swim broadside away from the bank. This will present a broadside view of prey that is escaping away from a fish holding the lip.
I then repeat the procedure as I move downstream. This presents a broadside view of a escaping prey and because you work downstream from the opposite side of the stream, any downstream silt that is kicked up tends to stay on your side of the stream. Plus the fly is always presented from above the fish, so the fish is not spooked by a fly that lands right on top of it. This can happen when you don't know the location of the fish and you are fishing a streamer from above.
Dry terrestrial bounced off the grassy bank and allowed to plop down into the water. Beetle or ant since you stated it would be late spring. I would try to stand down stream slightly of a good lie and be careful not to cast shadows. Would use a longer greased leader (at minimum 10') with about 4' of un-greased 5 or 6X tippet.
Did ya get him?
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rolled him twice
big swell..
didn't see it.
I would just try fishing it every day until I got it right.
With a great deal of pleasure,even if the fish did not bite.
Rick
Actually, if you know the spot that well in your mind's eye to cast without light, then a bit of Midnight Mousing might be what works.
:)
Ed
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It rolled in the same place each time.
Where>.....?
I think Silver's technique is very good, only I am thinking a PSC to show is something it may not have seen a few hundred times previously.
I wouldn't cast toward that big red arrow I'd get hung up on it. :) Seriously, I'd cast up stream with some sort of nymph and try to get it as deep as possible. And to be perfectly honest, I'd cast to the right of the angler toward those (not sure if they're roots or tree limbs sticking up from a sunken tree???) So no doubt I'd have scared that big brown off and never knew he was there.
Spinner asked where the fish rolled not where I would cast.
The arrow shows where I think the fish is, not where I would cast.
As for the cast, I explained what I would do previously. That is to cast down and across, throw a slack line mend to the right so that the fly sinks. When I think the fly is several feet upstream of the fish, throw a mend down and across toward the opposite bank (left) so the fly swims away from the bank above the fish. If you follow the fly line toward the bank in the photo, it points to about where I would throw the mend to the left.
Its similar to what you wrote.
Nearly Impossible Scenario
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The board in the middle bottom.
There is a giant brown laying under it.
I had no filter for my camera and the snow and sun wouldn't allow me to photograph it.
You will just have to take my word for it.
How would you fish this near impossible scenario???
And if you got it on....HOW would you land it?
Photo is taken upstream.
Tie a forty pound test leader directly to a stout stick and dap the fly. flip the fish onto the bank immediately on the strike. O.K. I probably wouldn't do it but I see no other way to get the fish with a fly.
I would try working my way up to a spot behind the log that is just downstream and to the left then sidearming a cast upstream to the log that cuts across the stream. I would use a rod stiff enough and long enough to horse the fish around a bit. The leader would have to be strong as well. A furled leader with a heavy tippet might help to turn over the fly with an abbreviated cast. I don't know what you fish eat with snow on the ground. A dark parachute tied with over-sized hackle might well work down here, resembling a big spider on the water, even in the winter. If that doesn't work, I might go the woolly bugger or hornberg or Alexandra route. Or even an unweighted PSC, if I have an unweighted PSCs... <mentally rumaging through fly boxes> If you get a hit, a strip strike and fast rod action followed by stripping in the fish quickly would be required, I think. Using a duPont spinner is cheating...
Ed
I think the best chance is at night with a very stout leader and an eight weight system. Fish a large fly floating fly like moth or a mouse with a mono weed guard so it can be pulled over objects. Getting a cast close to the spot is also a problem. Hence at night, the fish will be more willing to come to the fly.
Method 1. Sneak up real slow and lie down on the log. Slowly ease your hand into the water and grab the fish by the tail.
Method 2. Light an M-80 and softly drop it into the water just inshore of the fish.
Method 3. Find a local kid with a stout cane pole, black line, and a worm and give him $10 to carch you that fish.
What the HE double toothpicks are you doing fishing in that God forsaken place!
Bob