Originally Posted by
fishin' fool
How do you fish emergers? I've always assumed that they were meant to be fished in the film on a dead drift, but lately with winter time thinking going on, I'm wondering if maybe I should be using them subsurface on a swing, or dead drifted as well. If you goop them to keep them up, do you goop the whole think or just the fluff?
For me it depends on the emerger. For BWOs and Midges and the like I typically just go dead drift and do fine. For Caddis and sometimes PMDs, I'll swing it...usually just subsurface. Check out this book by Rick Hafele: Nymph-Fishing Rivers And Streams: A Biologist's View of Taking Trout Below the Surface
I know it's mostly about more subsurface stuff but there's tons of good info in there about general (and specific) insect behavior (emergers included) that is extremely valuable information when trying to figure out what's going on in the water...
~Randy
"Some people fish their entire lives without realizing it's not the fish they're after."