How would you fish this?
What would you use? Describe the set up.
Explain your rational on how you plan on hitting the hole.
Browns and brookies and maybe a wayward TIGER present.
Wisconsin in the middle of May. No obvious hatches.
This was his first cast in the hole.
The angler caught four trout in this hole.
Right side of hole is shallow and silted in.
The current shows you where the holes would be.
Last edited by spinner1; 03-01-2009 at 09:04 PM.
Spinner1,
Assuming they are legal there, I would use a three fly, wet fly cast. A Stewart's (Baillies) black spider as the point fly, a red spider mid and a dun spider on the bob. Casting quartering upstream to let the point and mid flies to sink a bit, allow the flies to dead drift through the entire hole.
Should the spiders fail to produce I would throw caution to the wind and use a Dupont lure.
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Happiness is wading boots that never have a chance to dry out.
From the other side, and some sort of hopper dropper to start. If not really small nymphs, and always finish a hole with a streamer or 2.
Edit; it being may go right to nymphs, mayfly nymph and a caddis.
Obviously the gent with the rod appears to be bottom bouncing some nymphs. I say that due to the angle of the flyline entering the water. Depending on the weather (temp appears cool, flannel shirt, sweatshirt) I would probably opt for the same. Appears to be late morning, I would go with an Olive BH Bugger with a trailer unweighted nymph 18" back (HE, PT, or muskrat).
Even though there is no surface activity I would also cast at least a couple wets from the vantage point of the 2nd gent, cast them slightly up and let them dead drift across where the riffle meets the lip of the hole proper.(May) I'd probably use a couple soft hackles (March Brown emerger, and a HE).
I'm not a rookie, just a sophomore!
Depending on the time of day -
Until maybe 11 am I would try a two nymph rig with a pink squirrel and some sort of pheasant tail pattern, with the PT below the pink squirrel. Fish it up and across under an indicator.
After that time, even if I wasn't seeing many (or any) I'd try an elk hair or henryville caddis pattern fished downstream and twitched once in a while. I've had good luck bringing fish up to that a for a week or so after the caddis hatches are beginning to peter out.
four trout
four trout were caught in black circles.
First was caught right after the photo was taken.
Each trout after that were caught just upstream from the next.
I would try a large Adams with a wet PT about 24 inches below it and cast it upstream from where the gent is fishing, around the corner, to tumble down through the shallower riffle, moving out farther with several casts to try to drift the combo around the far side of the hole.
I would fish from the tail end of the pool using a caddis emerger.
From the look of the picture, it's early season (clothes are heavy, the trees still look denuded).
I'd seine the water, lift some rocks, check the bugs, look under leaves, check my Latin dictionary, recheck my Latin dictionary....
...and then say to hell with it and throw a Pink Squirrel on there with a BB split shot or two.
I'd probably get out of the water as well.
I like the way you think.Originally Posted by Steven
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