What Strikes Trout to the Fly?

Does the fly you fish matter greater than the way you fish it? That query is the crux of Dom Swentosky’s newest story over at Troutbitten.

I agree with Dom’s premise that ” I feel the way you fish your handful of flies is normally extra necessary than what these flies are.” I carry simply over two dozen completely different patterns with me, and I’m capable of fish nicely sufficient all through the Rockies that I haven’t seen a have to dramatically enhance the variety of flies I’ve. The truth is, I’ve consolidated from my days of hauling 8 fly containers to the river each time I went fishing.

Anyhow, Dom actually dives into the weeds on this matter (as you’d anticipate from him) and does an awesome job explaining the reasoning behind his fly decisions. He advocates for the usage of “junk flies,” like mops, Inexperienced Weenies, and egg patterns, as a result of he says it’s his expertise that fish will transfer additional to eat them than pure flies.

“My fly containers are fairly evenly divided between all three kinds, however I normally tie on the attractors or junk flies first,” Dom writes. “If it’s a type of good days after they don’t demand pure patterns, I really feel I’ll catch extra fish utilizing junk flies as a result of trout transfer additional for them.”

How he fishes when he makes use of pure patterns is completely different, although, as Dom says he’ll decelerate and extra totally decide over water if the fish aren’t transferring on the gaudy junk flies that day.

It’s an attention-grabbing learn, particularly as we wrap up the final of the very best fall fishing right here, typically with a whole lot of junk flies. You could find the whole story right here.