In my recent posts I have been offering some tricks to
fishing the trico hatch on the South Platte River. I
would like to offer another simple, small piece of advice.
Sometimes, while guiding and my client is casting away
laying his trico dry fly over fish I
will politely say, “Stop, lets just watch .” I will then ask the client to take the leader
and fly in his hand and to simply observe. I ask the client to watch exactly
where the fish are rising and try to figure out their feeding sequence. We try
to observe the timing and the rhythm of their feeding. We watch the drift,
speed and direction of the naturals and or the bubbles. And then after some
observations, I will say, “Take a deep breath and plan your next cast. Think
about where and when you want the fly to land,.” I may add, “Now make this cast
count. Expect a rise.”
Over the years I have seen this little trick of taking a
pause to be very effective. It stops us from “beating the water”. It helps us
understand the flow of the section of river we are fishing and the feeding
patterns of the fish. I have learned in life (and in fly fishing), that
sometimes, we are better off doing nothing
even though it is difficult to stop and do nothing
well. It is very difficult for us to
simply stop and watch. Yet this little break can work wonders and once again is
one of my most effective simple “tricks” for fooling very selective trout.
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