02-16-2010, 03:56 AM
I am a novice at fly fishing this and I will post my experience with fly fishing....
I have struggled catching fish with floating line. All year long I have tried to drop wet flies under dries such as hoppers but I never really landed much. I think most of it has to do with my presentation and proper drift.
I switched to sinking line in the still water I fish and I have been very successful mostly with brown, olive and black leech patterns. Holloween in the fall worked great. I usually trail these with a beadhead pheasant tail, prince nymph, or olive scud.
I tried the southfork this sunday with my wife, we got stuck in thesnow in the morning and only fished for about 2 hrs near the bridge at heise. She was able to get a few bites on rubber legs/prince nymph combo and I got nothing with both floating line and sinking. Some friendly guy that talked to me while I was stuck gave me some flies including some egg patterns...apparently browns or white fish are spawing and rainbows are after eggs. I am not familiar with the southfork but the water levels are so low its supposed to be really good for wading in some areas...I mostly encountered heavy snow banks down the path I took when I got stuck.
For me the river has been a different beast and I have yet to be able to spot "good fishing holes" or properly present a dry or wet fly with my fly rod. I did land two browns on bait but not as fun.
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I have struggled catching fish with floating line. All year long I have tried to drop wet flies under dries such as hoppers but I never really landed much. I think most of it has to do with my presentation and proper drift.
I switched to sinking line in the still water I fish and I have been very successful mostly with brown, olive and black leech patterns. Holloween in the fall worked great. I usually trail these with a beadhead pheasant tail, prince nymph, or olive scud.
I tried the southfork this sunday with my wife, we got stuck in thesnow in the morning and only fished for about 2 hrs near the bridge at heise. She was able to get a few bites on rubber legs/prince nymph combo and I got nothing with both floating line and sinking. Some friendly guy that talked to me while I was stuck gave me some flies including some egg patterns...apparently browns or white fish are spawing and rainbows are after eggs. I am not familiar with the southfork but the water levels are so low its supposed to be really good for wading in some areas...I mostly encountered heavy snow banks down the path I took when I got stuck.
For me the river has been a different beast and I have yet to be able to spot "good fishing holes" or properly present a dry or wet fly with my fly rod. I did land two browns on bait but not as fun.
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