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Post by ctroy36 on Jun 24, 2006 18:16:30 GMT -5
Was fishing the Housatonic this afternoon and had stopped to fix a tangle involving the strike indicator and the leader. While working on freeing the indicator the fly was dangling in the water by my feet. All of a sudden there was a whole lot of splashing going on by my left leg. Looked down and saw that a smallmouth had attacked the fly and got himself hooked. What's really wierd is that I had moved back to the bank to work on the tangle and was standing in less than a foot of water.
Sure saves a lot of time and energy used in casting.
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Post by strbender on Jun 24, 2006 20:28:25 GMT -5
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Post by ctroy36 on Jun 24, 2006 21:25:05 GMT -5
Grannom caddis
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Post by JoeOverlock on Jun 25, 2006 14:35:23 GMT -5
I've had that happen with a streamer before but never a dry fly. Either that fish was incredably stupid or Charley is just that good.  |
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Post by ctroy36 on Jun 25, 2006 20:21:09 GMT -5
No contest. A stupid fish.
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Post by Mark Patenaude on Jun 27, 2006 7:55:28 GMT -5
I've had that happen to me a number of times. During my recent visit I probably caught 3 -4 fish while the fly was dangling in the current behind me.
I've also hooked a number of fish after swinging a wet and while loading the rod on the forward cast and the line in the water downstream I've had fish jump the fly while I was half way into the forward cast. The fly was moving very quickly upstream and wham!
Its instinctual. Put enough action (or unusual action) on a fly and trout will eat it.
I've also had many trout slash at my yellow foam indicator while nymphing.
Mark.
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Post by cgill on Jun 27, 2006 10:08:20 GMT -5
I was once sitting on a rock in some pocket water on Westfield River tying a Wooly Bugger on to my line. About 2 feet of the leader was in the guides when I dropped the fly in the water to get ready to stand up and cast. A 14" stocked rainbow hit the fly and I actually had to let line out in order to net him!
I think an even more frustrating thing is to see the fly that you have dropped float down stream and get swallowed by a rising fish. This happend to me once after I had tried for half an hour to get the same fish to rise to the same fly while it was still attached to my line. I dropped the fly while I was in the process of changing flies.
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Post by wtsobsessed on Jun 27, 2006 20:43:32 GMT -5
Seems to me that cgill was doing a pretty good job of simulating a live caddis ovipositing...
Caddis generally don't drift very long in the current. They land, lay a few eggs and take off almost immediatley.
That's also why trout hit caddis so hard...trying to get them before they take off again.
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Post by flyfishgb on Sept 27, 2006 10:14:41 GMT -5
I was recently fishing with my brother at the Connetquot preserve on Long Island, He was fishing with a an Orange Stimulator. He decides to cast his fly and pick up his cell phone. All of the sudden Bang fish on! It ends up being a 17 Inch resident Rainbow.
I guess thats gonna be his secret weapon now.
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