Wes,
The key to getting more hookups, I believe, is to think crippled baitfish,
rather than attractor, although I can't think of any better searching
pattern.
Leland.
>FWIW, Steve Raymond comments on this tendency of cutt's to short
>strike skated flies in his book, "The Estuary Fly Fisher". I don't believe
>he had a solution to it, other than varying the retrieve (faster, slower,
>pause, skip... etc.). As I recall, he felt skated flies were better suited to
>searching than catching and specifically that he was frequently able to
>rise (but not necessarily hook) fish to a skated pattern in water he had
>previously fished without a bump using more conventional, sub-surface
>flies. Of course, Steve was using primarily humpies and other high-
>floating hair flies and not Mr. Miyawaki's inimitable Popper.
>
>-Wes
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>Date forwarded: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:17:07 -0700
>From: "Preston Singletary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Washington Fly fishers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: cutthroat and the popper
>Date sent: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:16:19 -0700
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>> Leland,
>> Help! John Thompson and I went to Kopachuck this morning and fished the
>> incoming tide. I fished your popper and rose 18 (count 'em EIGHTEEN)
>> cutthroat. Only problem: I didn't hook a single one! Man, I tried
>> striking faster, striking slower, not striking at all. WHAT AM I DOING
>> WRONG! I was almost to the point of tearing my hair (and I don't have
>> enough to be able to afford to do that). The point of my stinger hook is
>> only about an inch-and-a-quarter behind the rear of the popper so I find it
>> hard to believe that one wouldn't have hooked himself purely by accident.
>> Is there some trick to this you're not telling us about? signed : Puzzled
>> at Kopachuck!
>>
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>Wes Neuenschwander
>Seattle, WA
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