Fishing the Dropper Fly.

There is a thing that I have called 'angler's attention'. Quickly rigging up your fly rod, and racing to a likely fishing spot, only nervous about yourself and your gear, are revealing appearances of somebody not possessing angler's attention.

Desperately I'd find a spot to fish, splash out there, and heave out my line. Maturity most likely plays as much a part in developing 'angler's attention' as anythin. Besides natural aging what truly modified things for me, was essentially observing a fellow fly fisher. Really it was more observing him, observing me. I was fishing a little stretch of reasonably remote river.

Though this spot became 'discovered' sometime in the ninety's, it remains comparatively pressure free after mid-June. Happily csting to rising fish, I occurred to identify a man stading on the bank watching me fish. Feeling studied, I gave it another five minutes or so, then headed in. The subsequent 30 mins or so were spent discussing fly fishing with this man in methods I'd never thought of before. He appeared quite as content to stand and talk about fly fishing as he was due to really be out doing it. Over the last decade or so, some fly fishers have hailed the dropper system as the most recent and largest thing to hit fly fishing since the graphite fly rod. For who knows what reason the dropper fly has experienced a re-birth and its uses are becoming more sundry too. The benefits of fishing 2 flies can be many . One is you attach the smaller fly first in the sequence and then attach the bigger fly, for example a stonefly sprite and fasten a split shot in between the flies. The idea here is the smaller fly, maybe an emerger pattern, will stay in the higher portion of the water column whilst the stonefly will sink down, towards the bottom, where the fish is most good to strike them. I told him to go ahead, it has to be his turn, and he announced there was room for 2. He was certainly a gifted caster, one of the finest I had ever seen, gracefully placing his dry fly expertly in the feeding lanes, on the sides of deep pools, and right below big rocks that were all fave holding places for trout. Commence with the huge picture, the water flow, clarity, time of the year, guess at the water temperature ( some take a thermometer ), think about the time of day, the air temperature. Turn over some rocks, study the bugs there, some take a screen and place it in this to view the offerings fish are being presented with. Basically spotting fish in the water takes practice. You'll be dazzled at the hatches you can observe from your auto, you wil end up researching the bugs on your windshield.

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