10-24-2008, 04:29 PM
brook wrote: ....Try reversing direction, for instance, with a downstream presentation of one sort or another. Maybe a soft-hackle fly is in the cards. Or perhaps you need to be dapping? ....
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Yup all good things to do.
From above, slowly hand retrieving a fly up stream can produce strikes. From above, holding the fly in the seam next to a fast current and skitter a elk hair caddis back and forth can entice those high mountain fish to rise.
Then to get into tight spotst here is the bow & arrow cast discussed in another thread. There is the skipping the dry fly on the water with a low side arm cast to get it upstream and under low hanging branches. Doing the same with nymph works too but is more difficult to control.
Never have been able to trace what is wearing out a line there are so many things that can cause it. Forgetting to was the suntan lotion or the deet off my hands. Bushwacking through the brambles. Snags in the river. My stepping on the line at my feet. Errant casting for tree fish. Bad timing on the casts. Dragging the line on the rocks. It all is blended into slow degredation of the line. It always seems that it is the front 10 feet or less of line that is damaged the most. and that part is not the part that gets dragged on the rocks the most.
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Yup all good things to do.
From above, slowly hand retrieving a fly up stream can produce strikes. From above, holding the fly in the seam next to a fast current and skitter a elk hair caddis back and forth can entice those high mountain fish to rise.
Then to get into tight spotst here is the bow & arrow cast discussed in another thread. There is the skipping the dry fly on the water with a low side arm cast to get it upstream and under low hanging branches. Doing the same with nymph works too but is more difficult to control.
Never have been able to trace what is wearing out a line there are so many things that can cause it. Forgetting to was the suntan lotion or the deet off my hands. Bushwacking through the brambles. Snags in the river. My stepping on the line at my feet. Errant casting for tree fish. Bad timing on the casts. Dragging the line on the rocks. It all is blended into slow degredation of the line. It always seems that it is the front 10 feet or less of line that is damaged the most. and that part is not the part that gets dragged on the rocks the most.
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