06-26-2010, 03:33 AM
wow excellent post riverdog. Through my relatively shallow experience in fly fishing I will try and answer some of these questions and hopefully learn something.
This setup takes a little bit longer for me to setup since I'm tying more than one fly which equates to double the knotts. I have only fly fished on the lower Provo. I don't see any heartache adding or subtracting a few split shots to adjust my depth. I try and fish the same depth of water the majority of the time. This doesn't hinder the areas that I cover. Fish like the deeper more concealed parts so that's where I try and fish. As far as accuracy, shit I just hope my fly goes out about 45 degrees up river from me and I don't catch any trees behind me. But really the holes I fish accuracy doesn't matter as much for me so yes I guess you could say I fish areas where accuracy isn't as important. I don't think I'm missing out on "most" fish most days. I agree the more time your flies are in the water the more fish you will catch.
I do get tangles which suck really bad. But having multiple flies directly where the fish are feeding seem to out weigh my mishaps.
You say you just put a fly on and start fishing? No weight? I don't see how this is very productive when the fish are feeding at a specific depth. Just one single beadhead fly at the end of your line won't get down very deep. Depends on the conditions of course. Since I'm a newbie and this is the setup I caught my first fish on, I will continue to use it unless I find something more productive.
Further, Thanks for your post. What type of setup do you use and where do you fish? I'm just happy that I'm catching fish on a fly pole!
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This setup takes a little bit longer for me to setup since I'm tying more than one fly which equates to double the knotts. I have only fly fished on the lower Provo. I don't see any heartache adding or subtracting a few split shots to adjust my depth. I try and fish the same depth of water the majority of the time. This doesn't hinder the areas that I cover. Fish like the deeper more concealed parts so that's where I try and fish. As far as accuracy, shit I just hope my fly goes out about 45 degrees up river from me and I don't catch any trees behind me. But really the holes I fish accuracy doesn't matter as much for me so yes I guess you could say I fish areas where accuracy isn't as important. I don't think I'm missing out on "most" fish most days. I agree the more time your flies are in the water the more fish you will catch.
I do get tangles which suck really bad. But having multiple flies directly where the fish are feeding seem to out weigh my mishaps.
You say you just put a fly on and start fishing? No weight? I don't see how this is very productive when the fish are feeding at a specific depth. Just one single beadhead fly at the end of your line won't get down very deep. Depends on the conditions of course. Since I'm a newbie and this is the setup I caught my first fish on, I will continue to use it unless I find something more productive.
Further, Thanks for your post. What type of setup do you use and where do you fish? I'm just happy that I'm catching fish on a fly pole!
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