Strawberry - tubing

[Joe_Dizzy]

Nice fish and report! I've never nymphed strawberry, but need to try. Just curious, are you nymphing under an indicator (vertical) or using washing line set up and fishing horizontal? Or maybe using a midge tip? Fishing over weed beds near the shore? How is the water over at East Portal? Every time I fished over there it seemed like there was a lot of moss in the water.

Fishing the nymphs and emergers on a floating line for the most part. 12 ft leader... short twitches (or series of twitches) with long pause in between.

Also creep along with them on the slow sinking line. Kind of trolling... but barely moving.

Only flies I use with indicators are chironomids (pupa patterns) and balanced leech patterns. Super effective when conditions call for it.

Fish are shallow early on (2-4 FOW)... then dropping a bit deeper as the morning wears on. Even then, still a fair amount cruising and picking morsels out of the surface film.

Here's that Callibaetis Nymph... killer spring-to-fall