Fly Fishing Streamer
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so i have been fly fishing for trout for about 2 years now but i am still not very sucessful i need some help?
i can cast just fine i am positive that my problem lies with the fly selection i dont know when to use a dry or a wet a streamer or a nymph i am pretty much clueless when it comes to this part of fly fishing so will somebody please set me straight thanks..
Without knowing more about the particular water you're fishing, it's not possible to give a single, exact answer. Here are some things to consider:
1. "Matching the hatch" is important primarily on waters that have ample invertibrate life with heavy/reliable hatches. Trout in such "rich" streams may focus on a particular life stage of a particular insect, and this focus changes multiple times throughout the day. "Limestone" streams and "spring creeks" are types of moving waters that are frequently rich in nutrients, aquatic life, and selective trout.
2. If your water has sparse, less reliable hatches, matching the hatch becomes less important. Fish in rushing mountain streams, coastal rivers, and lake inlets don't typically live in a high nutrient environment. They can't be as selective...or they risk starving. Freestone streams are typical of such waters, and the fish can respond quite well to general patterns or "attractors."
3. Flipping stones and screening samples from the water column will help you identify the common food sources and their densities. Use one of the many hatch guides available online or through a book dealer to identify the species and anticipate their importance in the trout's diet throughout the year. The whole idea here is for you to get to know your home waters more intimately.
4. Most streams aren't rich. As such, learning how to "prospect" for trout with the right selection of general patterns can do wonders. Tom Rosenbauer has a book on the subject, and there are others. Most anglers have "favorite" patterns that perform well for them, and often these are general or attractor patterns, not specific hatch matchers.
5. While you state your casting is fine, can you say the same for your approach to the water and your wading technique? In my first years on the water, I know I screwed up some good opportunities by not being alert to my approach. Every footstep, every ripple, and every shadow has the ability to change the outcome.
6. Don't ever believe that your presentation can't be improved. Competent, highly skilled anglers never stop learning, and they never believe they're beyond improvement. Keep practicing.
7. Trout do the vast majority of their feeding under the surface. Most of this is within a few inches of the surface film or within a foot of the bottom. Very little food is available in the large zone between these. If fishing with a nymph, you'll want to try to keep your fly at the right depth. It's easy to believe your fly is deep enough, when in fact it's nowhere near the bottom.
8. Streamers are sometimes the right fly for catching the larger or more aggressive trout in a stream, but an improperly fished streamer will alert fish and turn them off the feed. Go with a streamer if you've tried everything else and are willing to accept that once you've swam a streamer through the water, your chances of successfully following it with a nymph or dry are greatly reduced.
9. You've got to know how to read the water. If you can't, it really doesn't matter what else you know. The ability to determine where trout should be located, what insects should be prevalent in a particular stretch, and how the line/leader/fly will behave in and on the water are fundamental to successful trout angling.
10. Accept every day as a learning experience, even the fishless days. Everyone gets skunked. Frustrating, yes...shameful, no. The more time you put in on the water and the more you attempt to absorb about every angling experience, the better your chances for a successful outing next time. There are some great anglers...and even a few masters...that have lived. However, most anglers are just like us...folks just hoping to hit the water at the right time with the right fly.
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