Just a follow up to a post I made last year. Just looking for ideas for warm water flies to use on my 5wt. The river I'm fishing is a fantastic SMB fishery and I've had luck on a baitcaster before. Obviously a woolly bugger would work well, but something like a popper wouldn't I assume? Am I looking at heavier streamers primarily? How heavy is too heavy on my 5wt?
I guess that's a first for me.
Title. I was fishing a logjam the other day at my local creek and a larger fish for the size of stream I was in (probably a good 14 inches) was routinely torpedoing itself straight out of the water. I've seen smaller fish do it during a hatch, but there weren't really any bugs around and I thought that the larger fish were more wary when rising. How do I go about catching said fish? I tied on a smaller dry and I think it might have gone for it as it was doing it's silly jumps, but obviously I didn't catch it so I really have no idea whether that would have been effective or not.