Hell, I wish I was there right now, looks pretty sweet.
How could’ja pass up a honey hole lookin place like that?
Put a #12 bugger on the bottom & get ready for good things to happen!
This photo was taken just after first photo.
The fourth one tangled up on a submerged limb and I had to go net and detangle pink squirrel
The hole was done after that.
Spinner - glad to hear we did well, and that so did your client. I’m all amped up now since I go there every year about the same time as your photo. Just a bit north up by Viroqua, but I’m heading to Fennimore the second season weekend to meet a buddy from Madison.
New2theFly - LOL - we’ve all fished it that way at some time or another…
Good afternoon.
Interesting way some people fish.
Myself, I would have been at the top of the pool fishing down stream.
And been that far up stream for my first couple of drifts down, I would not have been seen in the photo.
As a fly, if nothing was seen moving.
A fluo carbon or twisted copper leader and maybe a wet in size 12 or 10, say something to ‘suggest’ a caddis or month creature, something with a good contrast of colours, if the water was cloudy or dirty, say a white wing and dark grey rabbit body, the rabbit dubbed body would help sinking.
AND…
If some bug…r tried to net my fish…you would hear it there !
Why must people have someone else catch their fish… I don’t understand as to me, its like, cast there, or the net holder casting the rod hooking up AND THEN, you get to net the fish… IF you must net the fish.
Kind regards,
UB
I don’t see any nearby trees. I would probably flail my cast and hook a bankside weed. Trying to dislodge my fly, I would slip and sit down in the stream. I would free my fly and continue casting, with dimished hope. I would have to free my fly 2-3 more times from the vile weeds before pausing to take a break. While “resting the pool”, and getting my breath and dignity back, I would realize that I had left my fly in the water where it caught the attention of a passing minnow. I would catch the minnow, by accident.
Or maybe that’s TMI for y’all this early in March…
Ed
Ayieee! You sing an all too familiar song, my dear Ed!!
:pFish…WHAADDAAT,
Winter has definetly been TOOOOOO Long!
I agree with what Ed said:D
What’s this pink squirrel everyone is talking about?
It’s hard to say for sure how I’d fish it without being there, but I would not want to make my first cast after wading so far out in the stream standing upright, and would not want to have that guy standing up there on the bank.
By that time the first cast was made in this picture, I suspect that most trout would have already run for cover.
My friend would be below me and out of sight, or perhaps up on the left bank out of sight where he could spot fish for me, and unless I knew the stream and pool intimately, my first cast would be made into the frog water on the right side while I was crouched farther downstream, or I’d approach from upstream (as already mentioned), but still keeping low and fishing the closest water first, and only entering the stream after I had thoroughly fished every place I could reach from shore.
:rolleyes:
whyistherethetencharacterminimumforposting&afourimagelimit?itdoesn’tmakesensetome.
AND as a TOTAL aside and a hijack to this thread , an earlier reply herein by Hutjensmpg made reference to a guides client as " your sport". Is that a common reference to a client of a guide/guide service?. As for myself, I DO NOT use guides and possibly, partly because of being referred to as his/her “sport”. Call me THAT, and you’re bound to be involved in the creation of a cloud of dust. Am I oversensitive or is “sport” an accepted, normal reference to a client?
Mark
the angler is a Doctor that bid on a trip I donated to a Cancer Grief Center.
He trout fished decades ago and was a newbie at it.
I DON’T guide anymore so I really don’t care what people call him.
It was for a good cause and the grief center made lots of money on my donation.
The term “sport” is used by some guides when not working. Usually when they are taking a day off and fishing with fellow guides or discussing events of the day amoungst other guides the term will be used. I have rarely if ever heard a guide refer to his/her client as “sport” when actually working with said client.
Kerry. Your clarifying response is much appreciated. I would still like to know, however, does “the term” carry ANY connotation other than just an innocently chosen noun nomenclature for a fishing guides client. My contention is that it’s a bit north of “chump” .
Spinner, your gesture in this case was not even remotely questioned. The calling of your client “sport” I’m sure ( IMHO) would NOT have been appreciated by the good doctor who as you implied, paid/donated a good chunk for the outing. In my business he would always be referred to as " my client Dr.-----------"
Mark
<Hijack Warning>
Hi Jack!
I decked the last guy that called me a “sport”. I’ll bet that he never calls ME a “good sport” again…
Ed
For starters, I would stay out of that little stream. Being upper midwest, and early season I would go with dry and a dropper nymph of an Early Black Stone at the begining.