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 Streamer Fishing Tips: Steelhead And Trout
Posted by skitch976 on Wednesday, January 10 @ 08:39:29 PST
Through most of my river fly fishing days I have focused on nymph type fishing or dry flies. On the off occasion I have put on a wooly bugger or streamer just to see what would happen. I have caught a few fish, but unfortunately most of the time I
have minimal results and therefore switch back to my more reliable fishing styles.
I think the main reason I have minimal results in fishing streamers on rivers is because I never had a teacher. Almost everything I know about fly fishing I have taught myself through trial and error or by reading. After 4 years of fly fishing I am still inefficient with streamers.
With the thaw coming in the next few months bringing with it its big mean brown trout fishing, as well as the spring steel head run in Salmon, ID, I would like to know some more seasoned fishermen's best tips and tricks with any type of streamer on any type setup in any kind of water. Thanks
Jim
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Re: Streamer Fishing Tips: Steelhead And Trout
by KodiakCommando on Wednesday, January 10 @ 10:54:47 PST http://www.fishalaskamagazine.com | One thing i do with streamers sometimes that i don't do with nymphs is i try to impart some action to the fly, especially for salmon or steelhead. I'll dead drift the fly but every so often i'll give is a short fast strip. I think this mimics a baitfish or anything struggling against the current.
The other thing i have noticed is, especially with steelhead and salmon but also for trout, that a swinging presentation is killer with streamers. That is swinging the fly across the current instead of dead drifting with nymph or dry fly. Just cas across or slightly down stream and as your line tightens allow the fly to swing across the current. For some reason this is how i'm most succesfull with streamers in rivers. |
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Re: Streamer Fishing Tips: Steelhead And Trout
by AvidDavid on Wednesday, January 10 @ 14:14:47 PST | Jim:
I've gotta say that I'm in the same boat. I have worked dries and nymphs for several years but I never got the hang of streamers.
There was a thread on F&F about using streamers for stipers that I started. It gave a lot of ideas about how to approach stripers in saltwater.
Maybe the swing (the antithesis of dead drift) is just too hard for me to deal with once I have become indoctrinated to dead drifting.
Yeah, I would love to hear from some others about their techniques. I know that streamers can work. My impression is that the biggest fish tend to be caught with the biggest "meals."
Dave |
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Re: Streamer Fishing Tips: Steelhead And Trout
by wesfishes on Wednesday, January 10 @ 18:59:45 PST | | First of all, I have never been much of a dead drifter with the streamer. It is a matter of preference, when I fish streamers I am looking for action and realize that there may not be as many takes, but when there is it is usually ferocious and the fish are on the larger side. Example: A couple of weeks ago I was fishing on the middle section of the Provo just below the dam at Jordanelle. The section of water was just under the bridge right next to the Provo Restoration Project on the north side of 40. I was throwing an olive marabou muddler and tossing the fly at about a 45 degree angle across the river-working the entire run. Using short abrupt strips I caught and released over 15 fish in one little section of water. The fly was heavily weighted with lead wire around the hook so it got down deep and bounced close to the bottom. The muddler style is not terribly important, I had to switch flies 3-4 times because it was chewed on so much. The idea is to get that fly deep so use split shot above the fly or weight them when you tie. Short strips work if you let the fly go down stream a little after each strip. I am by no means boasting, I missed as many fish as I landed. With the fly directly moving upstream I tend to get a lot of short strikes and sometimes don't keep the line tought to get the hook set. I get lulled to sleep sometimes. Good luck! |
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