Kevin, I was at Bennett a couple of weeks ago and the same thing happened to my white foam indicator. I think I am going to have to tie up a couple of "special" indicators. I could use them all the time, just in case something thinks it looks tasty. :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin W. Machon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 9:51 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] What I did.....
> 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 > > > > > > >
