Troutnut Forum > Fly Fishing Discussion > Tactics for Opening Day
| Flybyknight | March 18th, 2007, 8:18 pm | |
| Milton, DE Posts: 78 | OK, you arrive on a spectacular tail water fishery where you know there are 20"+ holdovers; fly fishing only, catch and release, barbless hooks, and no stock fish. It is cold, raw and not a sign of insect activity anywhere. Water temperature is 42° high and clear. You know that the following insects are present in either riffles, or pools that you may either wade or drift: Taeniopteryx Strophopteryx Epeorus Apatania Baetis (Dip net yields no insects because the river is wide and deep) What is your game plan? Streamers? or weighted 2X black nymph on the bottom with 3 droppers? or? And what flies would you start off with? (Yes I have a bad case of pattern anxiety) Dick | |
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| GONZO | March 18th, 2007, 8:27 pm | |
| "Bear Swamp," PA Posts: 1003 | Hi Dick, Personally, the closer the water temperature gets to 40 degrees the more my confidence plummets. But then, I'm not much of a winter fisherman. I doubt that many fish would chase a streamer, though one might nail it if you put it on the fish's nose. I'd dredge with nymphs--and pray for warmer weather! :) | |
| Martinlf | March 18th, 2007, 8:53 pm | |
| Palmyra PA Posts: 972 | Yes, too cold for streamers--nymphs on the bottom. Fish them slow and deep. | |
| Louis Is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? A trout! that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk . . . and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled merlin is bold! --Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler | ||
| Troutnut | March 18th, 2007, 9:22 pm | |
| Fairbanks, AK Posts: 1144 | I would fish a Taeniopteryx nymph deep, with a smaller but gaudy attracting dropper. | |
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