Reading Water

[spinner1]

Wisconsin Trout Season is closed.

I am going through Trout Withdrawl

If I can't fish......I can talk about fishing.

How would you fish this hole?

Where would Mr/Mrs Big be in this hole?

Hi spinner,

Yeah. Winter blahs starting to rush in. Okay, I'll take a shot.

I think the water flow is left to right(wouldn't bet on it though). The sun is about 1 o'clock from the photographer. If I'm right about the flow, first I'd move downstream a little bit, along the near bank. I'd cast to the far side, in the hole about 1/2 way between the edge and the left of the tree, so that the fly drifts down and through that hole. The first cast would be about mid-stream and each cast just a little further until I was getting my fly into the flow so that it drifted along the bank to the right of the tree.

Or not(-;

Allan

[RonMT]

It would be very hard to tell just from the picture. I would have to look it over in person to really do it any jusice.

I have been known to do things a might different than others do it. I found some lies on the Firehole River in the park that no one knows about to this day. Because I went looking and not fishing. Same with Depuy's Spring Creek. Amazing what you can find on a stream if you look hard without fishing.

I found some undercut banks that were two to three feet back. And they held very nice fish. But you would never know they were there if you didn't look for them. I just waded the banks and stuck my boot along it until I found thos lies. Sure paid off. And still does when I get to fish those places now.

In years past we use to do a lot of that type of thing but most do not take the time any more. They want to fish all the time and I can understand that.

Like I said if I was there I could pick the lies out but without seeing it in real life I will let others have fun with it. Ron

[Pisco]

Try just downstream of the culvert. Large fish like to hang around and eat whatever gets washed in.

Right about now I'd fish it anywhere and everywhere.

Pisco

[spinner1]

photo is taken upstream

spinner -

Taken FROM upstream or FACING upstream?

Allan

[lee s]

Water flowing from right to left....correct?
Question....feeding fish or migrating fish (in the sense of salmon or steelhead)?
....lee s.

[Bill Dorgeloh]

Id move down stream as has been said and start below the culvert. then move upstream
fishing this side or right side of photo then casting across until I covered all the stream up until the pool. I would cover the bank of the pool on the right side of photo moving my casts through the pool from down stream across then moving a couple of feet further up the pool.
As far as big fish, I think he would be under the undercut bank of this side of the pool.

[This message has been edited by Bill Dorgeloh (edited 19 December 2005).]

[spinner1]

left downstream...right up

[Greg F]

I'd throw a hopper right under the weeds where the photographer is standing, if he hasn't already spooked the fish.