I carry with me many emerger patterns. I think those flies look like sitting ducks to trout. They mimic vulnerable bugs that attempt to rise to the water’s surface. They’re high-percentage snacks. Most of the takes I’ve had this summer have been on emergers: flies with shucks, materials suggesting air bubbles on their backs, and/or
Author: Jo Tango
A Stocky Swift River Stockie
I negotiated a hall pass and today fished a 1/2 day on the Swift. Yes, I was there yesterday. And, yes, it’s a lot of driving over two days. But, hey, it’s fly fishing after all. The now-educated Swift rainbows continue to befuddle me. It’s my first summer fishing that river, as my first foray
A Swift River Friday
With no family vacation this summer due to schedules, I am taking some Fridays off from work. Today, I took a vacation day and fished the Swift. I arrived at the Route 9 parking lot at 6.45 am–and, got the last spot in the dirt parking lot next to the trail The river was packed
Leaders and Tippets Galore
I read recently an interesting post regarding leaders and tippets–and, how attuned trout are to them. The POV is that a good presentation trumps everything, that trout are not as alert to tippet diameter as some anglers think. There’s a lot of food for thought there for me. I speak with quite a few anglers, including guides