When high sticking, don't pay attention to what is happening on the
surface, just follow the fly where ever it wants to go. When I'm high
sticking, I always keep the tip a little in front of the drift and
the line a little slack. I don't try to feel the strikes, but look
for the tell-tell pause of the drift. It will either be the bottom
or a fish.
Tom
On Apr 5, 2007, at 1:22 AM, Michael Bliss wrote:
One area of a stream that has always caused me funk are eddys. Now
I have caught fish in them so they get some time - usually too
much- from me given their production. My problem is exemplified
best by a large boulder just upstream from the entrance of the
South Fork on the Provo River. Here the water eddys but it has not
just the normal eddy running in a counterclockwise direction but
there are subcurrents that are inside of the major one. This makes
making almost any kind of presentation a major problem. I have
seen very large trout moving in the currents but rarely get a
second look from them. I do occasionaly hook a 8"-12" fish there
but nothing of any size. I have tried "high sticking" but two
problems occur. It is difficult to maintain a natural drift as I
watch the bubbles moving there and you have to get so close that
the big guys of the river head off. Given this problem how would
you solve it?
Mike
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