What's your favorite fly fishing tip!

[JohnScott]

NB Ken -

Dollars to donuts my pine squirrel streamer will outfish your DFD every day every where.

John

[mAngler]

--Dry Flys:

-Stillwater:

Flush floating patterns (Comparaduns, Parachutes, etc.) will outfish standard hackled dry flys.
When calm, sunk flourocarbon tippet outfishes floating monofilament tippet.

-Moving Water:

Your dry fly won't get bit unless it's riding high and dry. ( Best flies... heavily hackled traditional dry flies)


--Nymphs and Streamers:

-Stillwater:

Good fly materials should move and breathe. Good materials are rabbit, squirrel, pheasant aftershaft feathers, ostrich herl etc.

-Moving Water:

When the water is fast and colored, use large and flashy flies to attract attention
When the water is slow and clear, use small and natural colored flies.


Rules I live by in the waters I fish... mileage may vary....


mAngler

[TomW]

Tyronefly,
Your comment about dryer sheets to ward off biting bugs interest me but could you give me some more info, what bugs, how long are the sheets effective ect. Never heard of this before

Thanks
Tom

[DaleW]

If there's little fish around, there ain't no big fish big fish around. Move on.

If little fish are taking a dries, you can probably coax a big fish to a dry -- somewhere else.

Although dry fly fishing for me is what I consider to be the ultimate for the sport, must confess that I've caught more trout under the surface with nymphs, streamers & scudds ~ maybe a ratio of 3 to 1.

There is a phenomenon about going underwater, especially (but not limited to) streamers. Everyone knows when a good sized trout takes a streamer hard ... there's just no doubt about it. However, sometimes (and I don't know if this is when Mars lines up with Jupiter, or the moon gets full or what), especially with browns, they will just bump the streamer, giving the impression that it's a small fish doing the bumping. But sometimes a few determined casts and presentations will reap a good sized trout that's been doing the bumping!




Dale

[okflyfisher]

1) Get a map and investigate all your local waters which have access
2) learn the seasons of your fish and your home waters in including the fish's primary foods and then fish accordingly
3) fish when and where there are fish
4)fish often, put fishing in your schedule like some people do golf or tennis

[AFISHN]

I posted this years ago but will do so again....Fill up with gas the day BEFORE your fishing so as not to retain that awfully offensive gas odor on your hands.
Mike

And I might add "avoid paying 20 cents a gallon more the next day"
tom