At least I learned something yesterday.
After the fish took the indicator, the temptation to catch a day after Christmas fish on a dry was too great. I hurried to the shore, changed leaders and tied on the closest thing I had, an orange stimulator. Here was mistake #1 - I charged right back to where I had been standing in the river for the nymph drift and started casting away, forgetting the drift on the dry would be different from the weighted nymph rig. The fish was quartering downstream which was fine with the nymph, but a little tougher with the dry. You'll have to forgive me here - it's been a while since I had an occasion to throw dries and my casting and presentation were sloppy at best.
When that got nothing I switched to a yellow/green stim, which brought an interested fish up to the top when swung across the current. My final bright idea was to see if these rainbows might behave like their west coast, sea-run cousins, so I tried swinging a Signal Light steelhead fly. It did have orange in the body. This moved several more interested fish, but none took it. I guess I just wanted to see what would happen - if I could catch a trout in MO on the steelhead fly. Then the sun left the water and I was pretty cold from standing in near freezing water for 3 hours so I decided to call it a day.
Final question - would there be anything wrong with tying an orange foam and/or yarn strike indicator on a dry fly hook? I've seen it in fly catalogs before, but never thought I'd have an occasion to use it.
Cheers
Kev
From: "Kevin W. Machon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [VFB] What Would You Do Next? Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:41:11 -0600
For the sake of learing from the wisdom on this list, I would like to know what y'all would turn to in the following "hypothetical" situation:
You make it out for a mid-winter fishing trip on a very nice, 40-something degree day. Partly coudy day, clear water stream, water temp in the high 30's to low 40's. Very few bugs coming off, all small mayflies.
About mid-day you move one fish and catch another nice 'bow on a double nymph rig. A little while later you have repeated rises to your orange, foam strike indicator by a very nice trout, followed by an actual take of the same strike indicator by what appears to be the same trout.
Now assuming you have no flo-orange foam flies in your box, what do you do to catch this obviously active and interested fish?
I would be happy to supply additional details for this fictional story if it would help with your answer.
Cheers,
Kev
