05-25-2009, 04:50 PM
When the fishing is slow or what you are throwing is not working inspite of obvious feeding then it seems that selectivity is very important. One of the confounding things: I have a lot of flies I have tied up that work gang busters for that day then they never seem to work well again even in the same situation where they worked before.
Then on those days that the fly I have on is working exceptionally well I will switch to another pattern just to see if it will do well. It generally does. Then the next fly I try generally works very well. At some point during the day the action will slow but going through those same flies that worked earlier also do no work well.
Then there was the day on the Arkansas river where I had a caddis fly pattern on at the beginning of the caddis fly hatch. It was not working so I decided to add a fly parachute fly that I had gotten off of a danish website which was a renown pattern in europe. It had not worked very well for me in the past. But as soon as I had it on the browns were smacking it for about an hour. Then the action stopped for a while then all of a sudden the Caddis fly was a hot ticket for the a while. Then they started smacking the parchute again. Alas, the switch was thrown again and all action stopped.
Fish they are a fickled bunch. Even more fickled than the fly fishermen.
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Then on those days that the fly I have on is working exceptionally well I will switch to another pattern just to see if it will do well. It generally does. Then the next fly I try generally works very well. At some point during the day the action will slow but going through those same flies that worked earlier also do no work well.
Then there was the day on the Arkansas river where I had a caddis fly pattern on at the beginning of the caddis fly hatch. It was not working so I decided to add a fly parachute fly that I had gotten off of a danish website which was a renown pattern in europe. It had not worked very well for me in the past. But as soon as I had it on the browns were smacking it for about an hour. Then the action stopped for a while then all of a sudden the Caddis fly was a hot ticket for the a while. Then they started smacking the parchute again. Alas, the switch was thrown again and all action stopped.
Fish they are a fickled bunch. Even more fickled than the fly fishermen.
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