Troutnut Forum > Fly Fishing Discussion > Trout sentries
| Troutnut | September 18th, 2006, 10:10 pm | |
| Fairbanks, AK Posts: 1124 | Today I fished a nice-looking pool in a remote small stream. The pool was about 30 yards long with a waterfall at the head and two deep spots holding fish: one small depression near the tail and the main, deep throat of the pool, which was about 1/4 of the way down from the head because of the bottom composition. It's not terribly deep below the waterfall because it's rock, but the rock drops off a ledge into about 3-4 feet of water where all the fish hold. The water's crystal clear and the surface glassy smooth, and there are a couple dozen wild browns and/or rainbows up to 13 inches in the pool. I didn't catch any of them. Here's my guess at what happened: I gave up quickly on the inactive fish near the tail, and waded into position for the other fish. I think this spooked the fish in the tail, which raced upstream to join the rest of them. I've read their spooked "posture" can signal danger to the other trout just as well as a deer's white tail. And I think that happened here, because the many trout near the head were just laying on the bottom and wouldn't take anything after I moved into casting position. (I saw a rise or two before that.) I eventually gave up on casting there and waded up just to see that the fish weren't suckers, because it was my firs time at the pool and I did see some suckers swim by me in the tail. Sure enough, there were quite a few trout. I'm really curious about how often we spook trout by spooking other trout, which swim away and set off the alarm. I think it may happen more than I've really noticed before. Anyone else have some interesting experience with this? | |
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| Sasso | September 19th, 2006, 10:14 am | |
| Chicago Posts: 3 | Nothing crazy interesting... but I've definitely seen it happen before. Spooking one can definitely trigger caution in the others - even if your well out of line of sight. I usually just sit idle and let 'em shed their spook before I start casting again... no harm in sitting and enjoying the scenery for a bit! | |
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