07-15-2015, 09:59 PM
[#0000FF]Starvation can be excellent fly fishing for trout...both rainbows and browns. Also good for smallmouth and walleyes...and perch...and carp.
If you are going strictly for trout summer is not the best time. Surface water temps are up close to 70 degrees now so the trout are going deep...up to 50 feet or more. That takes a good type 7 sinking line and a long wait to get your feathers down where the trout are.
However, once fall temps cool the water down into the 55 to 60 degree range the trout return to shallower areas and can often be seen hitting the surface in the morning and evening. But a slow sink line and subsurface presentations will get more fish than top water.
Flies in sizes 8 through 4 or 2 work well on those big bodacious bows. Blacks, browns, olives and whites all produce. When dredging the bottom use green patterns to imitate the crawdads...upon which all species feed.
Rabbit Gulch is a favorite with tubers, tooners and fly flingers. Many places to drive up and launch, within a short kick of good potential fishing. And there is a wide range of fish habitat...from shallow weedy inshore waters to deep channels, rocky shorelines, low exposed islands, etc.
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If you are going strictly for trout summer is not the best time. Surface water temps are up close to 70 degrees now so the trout are going deep...up to 50 feet or more. That takes a good type 7 sinking line and a long wait to get your feathers down where the trout are.
However, once fall temps cool the water down into the 55 to 60 degree range the trout return to shallower areas and can often be seen hitting the surface in the morning and evening. But a slow sink line and subsurface presentations will get more fish than top water.
Flies in sizes 8 through 4 or 2 work well on those big bodacious bows. Blacks, browns, olives and whites all produce. When dredging the bottom use green patterns to imitate the crawdads...upon which all species feed.
Rabbit Gulch is a favorite with tubers, tooners and fly flingers. Many places to drive up and launch, within a short kick of good potential fishing. And there is a wide range of fish habitat...from shallow weedy inshore waters to deep channels, rocky shorelines, low exposed islands, etc.
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