Matt:
I'm seriously considering tying some orange or yellow bombers on a #6 or 8 hopper hook as my new strike indicator. Or using the foam panfish popper bodies, painting them orange or yellow and going with that. I suppose a 3 or 4 ft dropper wouldn't be too awkward.
Kev
From: "Matthew Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VFB] What I did..... Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:56:05 -0600
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
>
>
>
