r/flyfishing
Nothing comes easy. Six years of trying - finally landed with my own hand-tied fly.
u/EntinthetentRTHP — 2 hours ago
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Dry fly fishing myth vs reality
You go into a fly shop or delve into the sport of fly fishing & dry fly fishing is considered the apex. The casting is artful, the flies are beautiful & varied. You learn about the different hatches. You can use a traditional bamboo rod if you want to present flies delicately. When a trout takes a dry it can be a wonderful experience.
My reality is however that if you actually want to catch fish, nymphing is where it’s at. You don’t need to know about hatches. You can use a Walt’s worm or a Perdigon and almost always be successful. You don’t have to care about time of day or wait for rises.
Every year I go to local stocked streams during trout season hoping to see a rise & virtually never do. I fling around a dry without any success & resort to nymphing in order to actually catch some fish. Why do I even look at the hatch charts or tie on a Hendrickson let’s say, if no fish rises to it?
It’s not that I’ve never seen rises. I have when I’ve gone to well know gold medal streams further away from where I live. But even in those locals rises are rare in my experience.
Should I give up on dry fly fishing in my local stocked streams? Should I force myself to use dries all day in one of these streams with the hope of getting lucky? Should I only use dries when I see rises? How will I get good at it if I don’t do it often?
From SE Pennsylvania & been fly fishing for 5-6 years.
u/PuzzleheadedSong51 — 11 hours ago
Became an Iowa Master Angler this weekend
Caught my first Brute trout yesterday, Condition was about 38° overcast and windy with no visible hatches. Decided to go deep with a weighted Wollybuger, band whala 23.5inches and 4lbs later! Sidenote, has anybody used a fish techy ball?
u/Equivalent_Bunch368 — 8 hours ago
Is there a way to switch this from RH to LH retrieve? If so, please explain it to me like I rode the short bus to school.
Can’t find a model number. This is the first time I’ve ever taken a fly reel apart. It’s neat but idk what anything is. I’m a spinning/baitcast guy. If you recognize the reel model, from what I understand that would be beneficial to me figuring this out too. Any help is appreciated.
u/DismalResearcher6546 — 5 hours ago
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At last someone has combined my desire to spend money and my love of Crocs!
u/insurancefun — 3 hours ago
First steely of the season!!! Also one of my first ever lol!
u/domahawk11 — 22 hours ago
Need advice on how to fish this.
North cascades. Deep pool, submerged trees and boulders, tons of structure. Very fishy water but it has skunked me 4-5 times in a row now. I’ve thrown about everything in my box at it and no luck. I think my biggest issue is getting deep enough with the fast current. Any recommendations? Should I go sink tip? Split shot? Streamers? Nymphs? Any advice would be helpful, thanks.
u/TNcannabisguy — 21 hours ago
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Help with getting a second rod
Hi -
Been using a redington classic trout 4wt for most of my time (~2 years now) fly fishing, but have been thinking about getting a second rod that might be better for some larger flies. Currently in the Twin Cities area and I don't always have time to go out to the trout streams, but plenty of lakes that I can fish at. Don't mind catching bluegills and panfish at all especially on my 4wt. Anyway, any recommendations for what you'd suggest - particularly in this area of the midwest (+Wisconsin/Illinois where I travel to pretty often)? Planning on stopping by a local flyshop and asking them too but figured I'd ask around here as well.
u/yesthisiscarlos — 6 hours ago
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Budget full cage reel
By budget I mean anything sub around 200. Also what size reel would I want for a 10 ft 3 wt? Im new to euro nymphing, so enlighten me on anything I need to know.
u/Annonymous272 — 7 hours ago
First fish of April
Had me sweating. Kept running into current but landed him on 6x
u/Illustrious-Chef2944 — 1 day ago
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First dry eats of the year. Off Old school fly pattern Renegade.
u/lcperrier — 3 hours ago
▲ 22 r/flyfishing
New Boots
Got some new boots yesterday. After a balance of price, reviews, and recommendations I went with Frogg Toggs deep current. My feet are size 13 and ordered size 13 with some froff togg 3.5mm Wading socks.
Initial thoughts, stiff as hell. I mean the sole has no flex.
Second my toes are swimming. My previous style of boots closest related to wading boots are my North face goretex hiking boots that have taken me 100's of Km through the back country. And my Baffin active winter boots (not to be confused with the Baffins I wear Ice fishing). So that's my back ground boots with toe room but a little less roominess through out but very flexible and feel like a part of my foot. I still have reasonable tension across the the top of the foot and the ankle to make sure I don't slide around. My heal seems reasonably planted. So is it too much wiggle room? I know they are by nature roomier and I'll have slightly less room (0.5mm less on all sides) with waders.
Now to break them in. Walking around is obvious but neoprene isn't the most comfortable. Copilot says short water excursions but we will have ice on the water. But I am teaching in pool water rescue training soon again. Good chance to get the feel and loosen the soles.
u/jess81g — 9 hours ago
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Caught my first steelhead today.
A 16" rainbow decided to eat my egg fly and I somehow managed to land it. I've fished for steelhead many many springs with a spinning rod and gave up probably 15 years ago, but this year I decided to go all in again and with a little help, managed to land one using an egg pattern behind a prince nymph. Couldn't be more happy. No picture because I was standing in the middle of a river. If you've been trying and failing, don't give up, just tell yourself one more cast.
u/GingerVitisBread — 1 hour ago