-brookies
-rainbows
-browns
-steelhead
-atlantic salmon
All in the same place tomorrow.
News at 11:00
Well here’s the news.
Caught 10 fish all together
-3 steelhead(2 over 20")
-6 rainbows(3 or 4 over 20"). One about 7 lbs.
-1 tiger
Went to a “fish farm”. The fella has a pond/stream that he puts larger fish in. Pretty cool. Great for learning how trout hit, as you can see most of the hits.
The ‘funny’ thing was I made a great-looking “pellet fly” to ‘match the hatch’ so-to-speak. The fish would have nothing to do with it. Caught most on a tellico nymph and a black wooley bugger(what else!).
Maybe not the most ‘sporting’ fishing but it was a good learning experience. A great place to take kids or someone to learn how to flyfish. Of course they will be ‘ruined’ by catching such large fish but…
Big:
I had an extremely interesting conversation with a famous “not-to-be-named” fly fisherman & tyer about a “corn” fly he made up once to fool some early season stockers. He said the trout ignored his “corn fly” but would readily take the real thing. He suspected it was a smell thing so he dipped his offering in corn juice and still had no takers.
It was then he compared the fall rate of the real corn with his fly and he realized that the fly didn’t fall as fast as the corn so back home at the bench he experimented with wraps of lead and compared the real corn with the corn fly in a bucket until he figured out exactly how many wraps were required to get the right “fall”.
You can guess the rest; when he tried his perfectly weighted imitation on the stockers the next time he killed them.
It was a funny story especially coming for him but definitely makes a lot of sense to me.
I believe mine had a faster fall rate than the real pellets. Tried to do the floatnat with limited success.
I was amazed at how they went afer the bugger though.
Probably had something to do with good fishing technique.
Funny…