Fly Fishing

KodiakCommando · Location: Kodiak, Alaska

I was just wondering what your guys favorite style of fishing is. Mine would have to be dry flies. I don't get to do it as much and you guys in the lower 48 because we don't have as many hatches but i still get do it once in a while and it's very exiting especially if you can get a salmon to rise to a dry.

hedrush999 · Posted: Thu 05/26/05 8:07 pm Post subject: favorite fishing

of all of the fishing that I have done, I would say that overall fishing dry flies for trout is by far my favorite. its a shame that the nearest trout is close to 1000 miles away.

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

nymphing - at this moment in time in my fly fishing life - i prefer nymphing with an indicator - it is very relaxing for me. i thoroughly enjoy trying to acquire the perfect drift below the water and watching the indicator flow through the current at the same speed as the bubbles. then it pauses i set the hook and fish on.......i don't know what it is i just love it and it is almost zen like for me...and i don't have all of my senses to rely on. i read the water and i make wise choices as to where i think a trout/salmon would be based on my past experiences - it is all of the things that go on UNDER the water that interest me most at this point in time.

DON"T get me wrong I LOVE dry fly fishing....but for me, right now, it is nymphing that i get the most satisfaction from. that may on a yearly, monthly =------- heck even a daily basis Laughing

GOOD TOPIC - interested to hear from others.

ChrisR · Location: Southeast Massachusetts

I'm going to go a bit off here and not pick a category related to the hatch, but focused more on the location. I love finding remote trout streams. I'm talking about the kind you can't walk along the banks of because they are way to over grown with vegetation to do so. That or they are just difficult to get to. Most of these sections of stream see little to no fishing preasure. For me there is just something about that experience that makes it that much more special. I love light lines and tough casting situations. And I'm far from being anywhere close to being an exceptional fly caster. It just makes me feel like I have accomplished something more if I do manage to catch a fish. A lot of the times I don't. But I still always seem to return home with some great memories.

joe-m · Posted: Fri 05/27/05 6:56 am Post subject:

nymphing does it for me... during a dry feeding hatch I like to put a dropper off the bend of the dry hook so I have the best to offer the feeding fish. Most times the fish hit the dropper.

waterwhippa · Location: Upstate, NY

I really enjow swinging wet flies as of late. When feeding fish are keyed in on emergers the action can be off the charts. In my book there is not a more aggresive take than on a swung fly!!!!

Pete · Location: New York, NY

Mine would have to be casting to snook at night under docklights. Seeing the snook hover in the shadows, and watching them charge into the light and blast the fly just gets me jacked up.

RickW · Location: Syracuse, NY

Nymphing, for sure. For me, it's always the most productive. Lately I've been substituting a EH Caddis or a small stonefly dry for an indicator.

The only exception would be during a good hatch, or spinner fall. Very Happy