It was an interesting morning at the Swift today. I started off going one-for-seven. Seven takes and one landed. The fish are not only selective, but they quickly spit out flies even faster than a few weeks ago. A few popped off my small barbless hooks. Some regulars at the Y Pool resorted to San
Author: Jo Tango
Fish Weird-Colored Flies
(PlanetTrout.Wordpress.com) There’s a good book called Feeding Time. It conveys what causes fish to strike. In particular, the book documents how certain traits have to be in a fly for a trout to commit to taking it. In my opinion, there is a hierarchy of strike triggers: size, then silhouette, and then, color. Size is
Fish This: the Sulphur
(TroutNut.com) I recently caught my first trout on a sulphur dry. The water was clear, the trout was only about 15 feet away from me, and I could see it eye the fly and cautiously sip it. Then, all hell broke loose. That’s always fun. Though the sulphur hatch season seems to be winding down,
32s
On the Swift, really, smaller is better. At least if midges are the fly of choice. Believe it or not, I caught 90% of my Swift trout without using fly smaller than size 24, but just last year I began experimenting with 28-32 sized flies. And I wish I had done it earlier, because I