I've done this with a stimulator and with just about any caddis imitation, especially little elk hair caddises.
I figured it out with nymphs first, on a day when nothing was going right. After letting the nymph swing through the current, I let the line dangle out at the end of the run while I tried to figure out a new approach. After the nymph hung at the end of the line for a little while, bam, got a strike. Now I always strip in the nymph after the drift is done, and I've been trying it with dries as well. I think the swept back wing of the caddises and stimulators (basically a stonefly) imitate the streamers and wet hackles we use as nymphs and little bait fish. I find that slow strips work best. It is a deadly technique and accounts for about ten times more fish than just dead drifting nymphs through a run. Dan Crowe ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:28 PM Subject: [VFB] Stimulator/streamer? > I had a great day of fishing last Saturday, first casting dry flies to a > large pod of hungry 10-12 inch fish in the Cub River (Idaho) and then > dredging the deep holes with a BHGRHE for 15 inch Rainbows on a stretch of > the Bear River through the Onieda Narrows. When fishing on the Cub I tried a > Stimulator as a strike indicator for a two foot dropper with a BHPT attached. > I got a few whacks at the Dry, a few more on the dropper, but the most > deadly technique was to pull the Stimulator under water, strip, hold, strip > hold until a fish whaked it... and they obliged with amazing regularity. As > is often the case, it was the only Stimulator I had with me, but it caught 15 > fish until I lost it on the one fish I really wanted to see. > > I am curious how many of you routinely use the technique of stripping in dry > flies after the drift, and which flies seem to give you the best results. > For myself, I'm going to be tying up a few dozen more Stimulators.... >
