11-22-2008, 02:29 AM
I dunno, FlyGoddess.
Is making multiple casts to simulate a hatch cheating? I don't see as it's any different. It's not like you were putting the food on a hook and pretending it was a fly.
It also raises a question about how selective trout really are. Sure, there are times where they get fixated on just one food type, particularly if it's abundent.
So how come, with all that "real" food they still hit an artificial dry fly? Not very selective of them at all.
Returning to Dryrod's original discussion. Years back, before we had electroshocking and other modern survey techniques, one way of counting fish was to dump a couple of pounds of ground up lights (cow lungs) at the head of a pool, and watch the trout feed on them.
There is no way those wild fish could have ever seen that before. Yet they'd happily feed on this windfall.
Again, it was a matter of trying something that might be food, and, in this case, discovering that it was.
Another example: When Golden Trout were first discovered, one of the favored baits for them was chocolate-covered cheeseballs. No kidding!
We're talking about wild fish in wilderness lakes who'd never seen a person before, let alone anything as outlandish as that. But they ate it with relish.
And, of course, we've all had the experience of fishing fast pocket water in nonfertile streams. The fish has little time to decide if that's really an insect you've just floated over him. So he errs on the side of calories, and hits it.
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Is making multiple casts to simulate a hatch cheating? I don't see as it's any different. It's not like you were putting the food on a hook and pretending it was a fly.
It also raises a question about how selective trout really are. Sure, there are times where they get fixated on just one food type, particularly if it's abundent.
So how come, with all that "real" food they still hit an artificial dry fly? Not very selective of them at all.
Returning to Dryrod's original discussion. Years back, before we had electroshocking and other modern survey techniques, one way of counting fish was to dump a couple of pounds of ground up lights (cow lungs) at the head of a pool, and watch the trout feed on them.
There is no way those wild fish could have ever seen that before. Yet they'd happily feed on this windfall.
Again, it was a matter of trying something that might be food, and, in this case, discovering that it was.
Another example: When Golden Trout were first discovered, one of the favored baits for them was chocolate-covered cheeseballs. No kidding!
We're talking about wild fish in wilderness lakes who'd never seen a person before, let alone anything as outlandish as that. But they ate it with relish.
And, of course, we've all had the experience of fishing fast pocket water in nonfertile streams. The fish has little time to decide if that's really an insect you've just floated over him. So he errs on the side of calories, and hits it.
Brook
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