The Rise: What can we learn?

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The Rise: What can we learn?

I am new to trout fishing. The last two weeks I have been exposed to two different trout rises and takes. Neither time have I been able to observe what was on the water. Little brownish flys were in the air.

The first week I what I would describe as a ballistic rise (take). It was if rocks were being thrown in the water. Very large splashes and loud noise in the water were this rises trademark.

This week the rise was that of whale scooping up krill. The fish came to the surface with its mouth open, dorsal and tail fins above water. It would stay above water briefly and then quietly submerge. Again I did not see anything on the water but there was a cloud of flys above.

My buddy says it is different stages in the fly life cycle and I would agree, but what stages. Any help/comments are appreciated.

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http://www.flyfishingconnection.com/feedingpatterns.html

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/begin/101/part29.php

http://www.fisheyesoup.com/article_details/317.html

http://www.uky.edu/~agrdanny/flyfish/faq/faq-3.htm

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Hi Mark, In Ernie Schwiebert’s “Matching the Hatch” (5th reprint, 1969), he devotes pages 16 - 20 to the very question you raise (sorry). Check it out. The entire book is a great read. Your public library will get it for you on inter-library loan if it is not on their shelves. Tight Lines, RR

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Look for the book by Vince Marinaro—“In the Ring of the Rise”—its an in depth study of riseforms of trout

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i second shorthauls advice!