TD in ID wrote:
R.B. wrote:
I now only use that fly, 100% of the time steelhead fishing.
100%? No exceptions? Even if you're not catching fish?
-- T.
Good point Tom. When I am not catching fish I just go home
Seriously though, I have found that "belief" in the fly and the fishing method you are using is one of the keys to success in steelhead fishing. As an engineer, I simply view it as removing a variable. I know it works, so I stick with it. Yes, even avoiding all the dark fly dark day, bright fly...
But more important than the science of this, its simply that I TOTALLY believe in this fly and the way I fish it (quarter down drift and hang in the current, or 4in strips as it quarters down). Just sort of a mojo thing.
I also believe this would work for any fly and any method, AS LONG AS YOU ABSOLUTELY BELIEVED you were going to catch fish.
I have to say there have been times I have been embarassed with my catch rate to others.
Of course recently trout fishing has been the inverse - maybe its all these different techniques I keep switching to, or back to, like BOBICATING!!!
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