Weather: 91
degrees
Stream:
Clear
Hatch:
Minimal
Beer: The
Dancing Man
The trout are staying deep right now
and reluctant to take a fly off the surface. I read something like 85% of a
trout’s feeding is subsurface. That means dead drifting nymphs on an indicator
rig. It’s an incredibly effective way for hooking trout and not unlike wormin’. I
just love dry flys so much I never nymph if I have to.
My nymph selection is lacking to say
the least, mostly scuds and pheasant tail nymphs. The indicators I used were
from my original fly rod way back when I started. I laugh at how naïve I was
when I started; I could hardly cast on the river let alone dead drift a nymph.
It started out alright; I had a few follows but nothing too big. However, my
indicators were so old they broke apart after a few drifts and I was left with
few options so I switched to an olive wooly bugger steamers.
At a nice bend, after casting and stripping, I
hooked a beautiful bass. At first I figured it was a massive trout, it made
some huge runs and I had to run up and down the shoreline but it turned out to
be a nice bass. On a fly rod a bass is an incredible catch. Your rod doubles
over and the reel strips out line faster than you can reel it in. After the
bass, it was bad luck after. I missed a few strikes on a dry fly at my secret
spot to great disappointment.
In last flickering rays of twilight,
I finally hooked a nice ten inch trout on a large royal humpy, a dry fly I
rarely use and tied on out of desperation more than anything else. My first
drift resulted in a trout literally leaping a foot out the water. A few drifts
later it was mine. Sometimes I feel so bad about keeping such a beautiful fish,
but as a friend told me once, you should be willing to kill something if you
want to eat meat.
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