Re: Questions, Questions, Questions.
Originally Posted by
TonyC.
Questions I always wanted to ask but never did.
When fishing 4 to 8 hours, how many fly boxes do you carry in your vest?
How many flys in each box?
How many different types of flys in each box?
When fish are taking fly of a certain hatch and not taking yours, even though it matches the hatch do you change flys?
How long do you fish with one fly when fish are not taken the one you have on?
Do you often fish alone?
Do you ever just leave the water to rest and enjoy the scenery?
Do you drive a long distance to fish for one day?
Do you continue to fish only one area or move up and down stream?
How many rods do you take to the water?
Do you tie on the 1st fly at your car or wait until you are at waters edge.
Do you prepare your gear for the next fishing trip when you have stopped fishing for the day or do you wait until the next time out to clean up.
When you change flys do you put the wet fly back in your fly box.
Just curious. These are some of the things I do and wondered if others do the same.
Tony C.
ok let's see...
1. It doesn't matter how long I'm fishing, it depends on where I'm fishing on how many boxes I take. I have a dedicated small stream box that basically just has 30 or so attractor patterns in it and then for all other trout fishing I only take two boxes, each holding somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple hundred flies (I'm guessing...could be a little off)
4. yeah, I changes flies if their not taking my fly during a hatch...I have a couple of patterns that I call "hatch busters" that I'll throw on if I can't get them to go for my supposed match of the hatch...I'll give you a hint, one is a terrestrial...
5. If I'm getting nothing on a particular fly, I'll change within 15 minutes or so...really depends on the water...if it's water where fish are fewa and far between, I'll leave it on a bit longer.
6. I fish alone probably 95% of the time...4% with my dog (only during the winter) and maybe 1% with another person. most of the time I'll meet people out fishing and sometimes we'll spot for each other but that's about it...I find that it's much more relaxing for me to be alone.
7. I'll always rest water and just sit and watch...I do this alot at the Deschutes where I'll be casting to a fish, if I put it down, I'll just kick back, enjoy the scenery, let it start feeding again for a while and try again. I don't do this as much on freestone streams where there's much more prostpecting going on.
8. (I'm sure I'm skipping a few questions here...)...I always take exactly two rods and two reels with me only one ON the water), in one day last year, I broke a rod (I did have a spare luckily) and later on broke the handle off my reel (didn't have a spare but I used it anyway...but it was a pain in the arse)
Always tie the fist one on after you get to the water and have a chance to look around...and I never put a wet fly back in the box until after it dries...
but hey, that's just me...
"Some people fish their entire lives without realizing it's not the fish they're after."