A Complete Waste of Space

ever fished for trout during a Trico hatch, Buzz? I was out this morning on the Tulpehocken, in PA. Massive clouds of size 24 mayflies. Looked like a fog over the creek. Blundered through the woods to a clearing, looked out and saw 3 pods, with maybe 60-70 fish total, absolutely gorging on the bugs. Kicked butt for 3 hours, got a bunch of nice browns(nothing huge like that rainbow in the photo you posted). They were picky, though....had to run the fly right into their mouths and it had to be a 24, no 22s, and the leader had to be thin. Still, they were intent on feeding and catching one or two of their nearby pals did nothing to slow them down. In fact, the only thing that stopped them feeding at all was a blue heron flying over. That killed things for about 15 minutes. Overall a great light tackle day. A lot of gentle playing of hard fighting trout. w00t!

No Tricos in my local creeks, but I have fished them on the So Platte. I have a real hard time seeing them. Plus, it's always full of fisherman.

I'll stick to the solitude of my home waters. I can always catch fish with hoppers, caddis, adams, and hairs ears.

Lucky you to get all those hatches.

Ahh Fly fishing. Presentation, patience choice of little tiny flies.. Prim, proper and a gent's past time.

If we had trout streams instead of tepid creeks around here I might give it a try. I've seen some guys trying to catch bass with flies, but they do more casting than catching. Hmmmm come to think of so do I.

Personally, I'd rather have my fifty year old bait casting rig and wooden Lucky 13 pluggin for bass.

I don't know of any trout in this part of the world that aren't farm raised either. We do have a lot of "line side" or large mouth bass to tear up up our riggin though.

I also enjoy ultra-light fishing for the big ones too.

My wife likes to fish using night crawlers and she catches the HELL out of 'em. Baits her hook AND cleans all the fish and too.

Any way you do it, fishing rocks.

I get all native fish. They don't stock browns or brookies, and that 99.9% of what I catch. Unless I go to high mountain lakes. Then it's 100% cutthroats.

This is fishing heaven around here.

Deer heaven too. I must see 50 deer everyday.

I'm thinking of trying to make my own buckskins.

bearkiller wrote:I have a real hard time seeing them.

individual bugs are hard to see(about 1/8 inch long), but when you get about 6,000,000 hatching over a half mile of river, you can see the hatch just fine.

Wullie wrote:Ahh Fly fishing. Presentation, patience choice of little tiny flies.. Prim, proper and a gent's past time.

hell, Wullie, that may be true sometimes(today was one of those), but up here sometimes it is down and dirty, lobbing big-ass shit into the growing darkness and then hanging on. These bugs today were microscopic, but we get a hatch in mid-state around Memorial Day that consists of bugs that are a full two inches long. Nothing graceful about imitating them.

Any way you do it, fishing rocks.

that's pretty much my view. The last fishing I did before this was 3 weeks back, with an 11 foot heavy surf rod, large hooks and chunks of spot(small saltwater fish), trying for sharks at Assateague. Before that, a boat rod and a reel akin to a commercial winch attempting to catch Blue Marlin. It's all good.

callmeslick wrote:

bearkiller wrote:I have a real hard time seeing them.

individual bugs are hard to see(about 1/8 inch long), but when you get about 6,000,000 hatching over a half mile of river, you can see the hatch just fine.

Cmon Slick. I can see the hatch. I can't see my fly.

that's pretty much my view. The last fishing I did before this was 3 weeks back, with an 11 foot heavy surf rod, large hooks and chunks of spot(small saltwater fish), trying for sharks at Assateague. Before that, a boat rod and a reel akin to a commercial winch attempting to catch Blue Marlin. It's all good.

I miss my explosives......Not very sporting but it is effective and can be exciting.

bearkiller wrote:

callmeslick wrote:

bearkiller wrote:I have a real hard time seeing them.

individual bugs are hard to see(about 1/8 inch long), but when you get about 6,000,000 hatching over a half mile of river, you can see the hatch just fine.

Cmon Slick. I can see the hatch. I can't see my fly.

ahhh. I get you. Antron is your friend, as is white CDC(I use that for emerger wings). Either of those should be visible from 50 feet away, and for Tricos, you don't want to be further than that from the fish(lots of sneaking up on them with this game). If you cannot see sparkle yarn on the surface at, say, 40 feet, go to an eye doctor.

Wullie wrote:I miss my explosives......Not very sporting but it is effective and can be exciting.

I would think that casting distance is critical there.....