Yup Wes some days are like that. The fish hit short or won't take a cast fly at
all. It's just some days. I have started tying all my poppers on tubes....very
small tubes with the inside diameter about the width of a pin. This way if they
are hitting short, I can adjust and put the hook farther back. Another thing to
do is to fish faster running water and pronounce the swing of the fly. If this
dosn't work I will move to an area where I can see bait working then the fish
will come fast and hit hard if the cutts are around. The best action for me has
been the tuck and 2 hand retrieve where I can adjust to a bunch of retrieves.
Busy days for me wish I had more time.
TW
Wes Neuenschwander wrote:
> 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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> Wes Neuenschwander
> Seattle, WA
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