This is dryline season....why with the tips? Desperate?? amateur?? caveman?? I love throwing a longline and enjoy shorties too, but now is the time to single spey and snake roll...for get about the snap t's and dump casts. .small flies and hair wings abound. No shanks,double bunnies, or moal leeches. Nothing longer then 2 inches and sparsely tied. That's what summer fishing is to me....oh well
I couldn't word it any better Steve! Opportunity leads me to fish a dryline..and if I'm lucky I'll hook a fish I won't soon forget. It has been this way since I started with my mentors encouraging me to get over the urge to dredge during summer and actually experience a true surface take from a wild steelhead. Did I mention I've never caught a hatchery on a waked fly? This method leans towards hot wild fish and there tendency for chasing down flies. I'm all over that! I've seen fish come up 10 feet off the bottom to chase a wet fly, if there is a player, it's on! To each there own, ,but if this thread someday down the line changes someone's approach on a hot summer day, and they swing a dry with success ..that's all it takes to convert them,, they too will tell of the sporting way to catch fish on top. Good luck
I have caught hatchery fish on top but the number of them seems to be decreasing.
There are a number of reasons for this mostly having to do with how our hatchery plants are managed, but I also believe that over time domestication breeds less aggressive fish, aggressive being defined by their willingness to move for a fly.. I have nothing to back this up except my own declining productivity as an angler over hatchery fish..
I have caught hatchery fish on dries but not lately, as Rob pointed out probably due to hatchery reform(less fish and less wandering to upper reaches where they would get trouty)
Never understood the obsession with wild vs hatchery. Wild fish are simply easier to catch. The adipose fin provides a larger surface area to snag them. It's science.
I couldn't word it any better Steve! Opportunity leads me to fish a dryline..and if I'm lucky I'll hook a fish I won't soon forget. It has been this way since I started with my mentors encouraging me to get over the urge to dredge during summer and actually experience a true surface take from a wild steelhead. Did I mention I've never caught a hatchery on a waked fly? This method leans towards hot wild fish and there tendency for chasing down flies. I'm all over that! I've seen fish come up 10 feet off the bottom to chase a wet fly, if there is a player, it's on! To each there own, ,but if this thread someday down the line changes someone's approach on a hot summer day, and they swing a dry with success ..that's all it takes to convert them,, they too will tell of the sporting way to catch fish on top. Good luck
KEV..I Didn't like the drive to Powell. .only to find I was late I know brats take skated flies..my area of attack has been and will be away from terminal zones usually above them to avoid such matters as catching a brat.
Haha why would someone use a sink tip when nymphing. What an amateur... That's rich.[/QUOTE]
If u can get any more "pure" while nymphing..I'd say a sink line with weighted nymph is just as good as swinging better then watching a bobber and at least feel the take!
If u can get any more "pure" while nymphing..I'd say a sink line with weighted nymph is just as good as swinging better then watching a bobber and at least feel the take!
I've seen guys on columbia tribs swing small stone flies, hares ears, etc and do work. Not that it matters to classify it but I've always considered it swinging
Golfy back in the day before thingamabobbers and shit...u use to throw a wf5/6 sink tip line with a short leader, the Czech ' s visited Montana I'm sure of it and then labeled it their own when I met a fellow friend on a river damn near 10years ago...me and Yard came round the bend to see her doing just that, nymphing with a short leader no bobber..THAT, with a PBR in her hand to boot..real deal there folks,much respect. You might find her at Avid stirring the pot Teeny 200's were the ticket back then ...beads ruined everything.
Sad part is dry lines are quieter, more fun, just as effective in these conditions, and allow one to cover more water faster this translating to more chromers roped per hour or (crh).
As you know, I can be a bit of a stickler for details at times. This is just to remind you that, by the rules of arithmetic, it's CR/H for "per" hour, not crh which would be chromers roped "times" hour(s). I figured you'd want to be correct.
They have their place. Furled leaders too. I just prefer hand tied mono. You can really sink a Fly on it if you understand it all and its the lightest anchor.
I feel like I'm the only one, but I might prefer a floating poly over standard mono. I feel like I can fish/cast it in close more effectively. Once I have a bit of line out then I don't care one way or the other.
I think I can cast further with a long, mono leader, so on some rivers I might prefer that but most of the time max distance isn't all that important.
I haven't tried the floating poly. Mostly due to cost, but I have a suspicion that like a furled leader it would be great for skating and casting my furry balls. It's a revolutionary fly sweeping up chromers like a high school janitor.
My floating poly is on its 3rd summer now. Still more $ than mono but it's held up well since it's not getting snagged on stuff, except maybe a tree or 10.
I like a long flouro leader to a two fly rig for my dry line summer rig for optimal CR/H. Often with a pinch of putty. And a balloon. Fuck it I like nymphing.
Dustin I am also wondering if you could submit this equation to my Google Glass team. We are adding in a new tool which will log Blitz Limits when fishers are to dust so much chrome. Then an alert should be syndicated to all major blogs, boards and social medias so people are aware of your lunking. https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-api/issues/entry
Thought this thread was about getting a fish to take near or on the surface. Sink tips and weighted flies don't help with that.
I'm wondering what type of rope to use for roping chromers. Is it sisal?..nylon, cotton, mono, twisted wire, hemp, or? Roping chromers doesn't seem possible to me unless it's barbed wire because of the shape and slime on a chromer. doesn't matter where the rope comes tight, it'll slip off for sure if the rope isn't barbed?
I like intermediate tips in the summer because the water tends to be shallower and a little sinking can help. If you want to fish floaters only you have the option to choose the water because the water is what matters to steelhead.
Oh, I want to watch this happen. I think they did a movie about this once. Wasn't Brad Pitt in it? Hans, you are handsome enough to be the Pitt dude. Chromers sorry, you have to be the other dude, but you know he was more real anyway.
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