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jeffery wilson
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Hi Every Body,
How are you all? What is the question that all anglers ask themselves? What do trout eat, and what are they hitting? Most trout follow a similar life cycle. They eat what is most abundant and easiest to catch and eat it. When fish are small they concentrate on small aquatic insects. Nymphs, mayflies, leeches, and terrestrials are fare for the day for these smaller game fish. Fly fishing uses different flies to imitate these small aquatics.
As trout trout get larger they start to consume larger bites of food. Minnows, and small fry of game fish and larger crustaceans become the standard fare and these are are imitated with a streamer fly.
All of these are things that can be imitated by flies and fly fishing. It is the one method of fishing that lets you simulate the greatest variety of the game fishes diet. So as a serious fisherman it only makes sense that to catch fish consistently you need to know how to fly fish. Not only does it make sense, but because of the depth of this style of fishing it instills a love and passion that carries through your entire life.
I know what most of you are saying "It's just to difficult to fly fish, I can't do it", but in truth you can learn to cast well enough to catch fish in a day. Casting is easy to learn and I will be writing a few articles with my own thoughts on that.
Choosing your fly is something that most people try to complicate needlessly. When choosing a fly keep 3 things in mind. Find out what they are eating, where are they eating it, and then match shape, size, and color with your fly, with shape and size being most important and color least (just get as close as possible and when you have to choose between close shades lighter or darker, choose the darker). But what do you do if there are no fish actively feeding. Which is a large percentage of the time.
That is the time to pull out a suggestive patterns instead of a exact imitation. I have several that i like to use when nothing much is happening. They are a black or olive woolly bugger or a gold ribbed hare's ear nymph if I think that they will not rise to a dry fly because they are holding to deep. If I think that they might rise to a dry fly ten I use a Elk hair caddis or an Adams dry fly depending on what may have been on the water recently but also what kind of water I am fishing. The Elk hair caddis floats much better on fast water then an Adams will so when the water speeds up I tie on an Elk hair caddis. One thing about caddis imitations a little bit of drag can some times help entice a strike so this is a great fly for a beginner.
If I am fishing subsurface I use the woolly bugger in fast water and the gold ribbed hares ear in slower water. The woolly bugger will represent a larger bite of food and if a trout is going to have to chase it down it needs to get enough calories from what it eats to make the energy it expends worth while, and the hares ear is just a very suggestive fly that catches lots of fish. Take these out on the stream with you next time not much is happening and see if you can stir things up I think you'll be surprised.
Best Regards.......
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How are you all? What is the question that all anglers ask themselves? What do trout eat, and what are they hitting? Most trout follow a similar life cycle. They eat what is most abundant and easiest to catch and eat it. When fish are small they concentrate on small aquatic insects. Nymphs, mayflies, leeches, and terrestrials are fare for the day for these smaller game fish. Fly fishing uses different flies to imitate these small aquatics.
As trout trout get larger they start to consume larger bites of food. Minnows, and small fry of game fish and larger crustaceans become the standard fare and these are are imitated with a streamer fly.
All of these are things that can be imitated by flies and fly fishing. It is the one method of fishing that lets you simulate the greatest variety of the game fishes diet. So as a serious fisherman it only makes sense that to catch fish consistently you need to know how to fly fish. Not only does it make sense, but because of the depth of this style of fishing it instills a love and passion that carries through your entire life.
I know what most of you are saying "It's just to difficult to fly fish, I can't do it", but in truth you can learn to cast well enough to catch fish in a day. Casting is easy to learn and I will be writing a few articles with my own thoughts on that.
Choosing your fly is something that most people try to complicate needlessly. When choosing a fly keep 3 things in mind. Find out what they are eating, where are they eating it, and then match shape, size, and color with your fly, with shape and size being most important and color least (just get as close as possible and when you have to choose between close shades lighter or darker, choose the darker). But what do you do if there are no fish actively feeding. Which is a large percentage of the time.
That is the time to pull out a suggestive patterns instead of a exact imitation. I have several that i like to use when nothing much is happening. They are a black or olive woolly bugger or a gold ribbed hare's ear nymph if I think that they will not rise to a dry fly because they are holding to deep. If I think that they might rise to a dry fly ten I use a Elk hair caddis or an Adams dry fly depending on what may have been on the water recently but also what kind of water I am fishing. The Elk hair caddis floats much better on fast water then an Adams will so when the water speeds up I tie on an Elk hair caddis. One thing about caddis imitations a little bit of drag can some times help entice a strike so this is a great fly for a beginner.
If I am fishing subsurface I use the woolly bugger in fast water and the gold ribbed hares ear in slower water. The woolly bugger will represent a larger bite of food and if a trout is going to have to chase it down it needs to get enough calories from what it eats to make the energy it expends worth while, and the hares ear is just a very suggestive fly that catches lots of fish. Take these out on the stream with you next time not much is happening and see if you can stir things up I think you'll be surprised.
Best Regards.......
Luray va accommodations
