Trout on flies - some underwater advice

[Newt]

My latest issue of Field & Stream has a great article by a diver who spent time in a river while a film crew and some fly anglers tried various methods for trout. It may have you changing some of your tactics.

 

www.fieldandstream.com/troutresearch has a reprint of the article with additional photos. Well worth a read.

 

 

The only way to truly understand the fish, I figured, was to be the fish, so I got out my scuba gear and jumped in. Here’s what I learned.

 

Actually, the Field & Stream magazine is probably worth a subscription. They started publishing about 132 years ago as Forest and Stream and have been going strong since then. They run different articles depending on the season with quite a bit of hunting/shooting in the Autum/Winter and a variety of fresh water articles all year. My Dad had a subscription when I was a youngster in the late 1940s (probably long before that) and I have maintained one most of the time since I left home in the mid '60s.

 

Somehow they have managed to keep fresh articles for all that time.

[Tog]

All good stuff Newt, good bye bob, hello good old yarn...

Edited February 4, 2007 by Tog

[Vagabond]

There is a helluva lot of excellent trout lore in that piece - it could be John Geirach or his friend A.K.Best talking.

 

From the article :-

"Here's the point: You should change your weight three times before you change your fly pattern."

 

..and if I may quote the great A.K.B :- "very often the difference between a good fly fisherman and a great fly fisherman is just one split shot"

 

...and as for false casting... well, go to any rainbow trout stew-pond and witness the seemingly endless swish-swish-swish-swish-swish-swish-swish of many of the punters.

 

Wherever possible I retrieve, roll cast into the air, make ONE vigorous back cast, then ONE forward cast and you are fishing again within 3 or 4 seconds. Trying to aerialize too much line wastes time, and often ruins presentation.

 

Thanks for that Newt

[Newt]

You are quite welcome Vagabond.

 

If the counters are to be believed, there seem to be 3 of us who thought it was a good piece and 40 who didn't think it worth a comment. Interesting.

[Anderoo]

I only just noticed this, cheers Newt, very informative stuff.

[tack4]

certainly food for thought cheers newt