Catching any LEAF fishes today????

I took a peek at the weather for Erie Pa and see winds forcast at 25 to 35 mph.
 
Figure there must be plenty "hook ups"....
 
 
side note to our friends who would like to be Trout Gawds.
 
If your rig isn't sensitive enough, or your concentration on your float/strike indicator/flyline isn't good enough  to detect when a submerged leaf hits your line/tippet or fly/bait, your missing LOTS of steelie bites.
(hows that for a r-u-n..o-n sentance)  
hehehehehe
 
if you're not setting the hook submerged leaves,
you're missing LOTS of "real"  bites on a light bite day.
That's one of the reasons why some catch a bunch-o-fish and others work all day for a couple
 
 
...L.T.A.

You're a good man T.T.  That's what weekends are for.   Oh, and by the way, the leaves wern't too bad when we left the stream @ 1PM yesterday. I suppose that's all changed today w/the wind.  Dave

I can truely attest to light bites as experienced by myself over the past couple of weeks. There were times I would watch my bait moving through the current and actually see fish mouth the bait and never feel a nudge on the flyline. I watched trout inhale a minnow and before I could set the hook it was spit out. Several times my float would stop and thinking it was hung up, I gently lifted the line and was surprised to find a fish on the other end.
 
Each time I learn something new about any type of fishing I realize how much I don't know and how much more there is to learn. I've learned a lot from reading this board both about what to do, and what not to do.

i cawt nO leefs duud
 
jist lik 80 stelhed
 
jist sitt att hom an kry abowt leefs an crwowds
 
i wil hamR the stel forr you

ORIGINAL: youngguru

i cawt nO leefs duud

jist lik 80 stelhed

 
 smAl duud
 
thoz duuds in shoots cawt 200 stelhedz
 
 
..L.T.A.

Serve them with acorn stuffing and crab apple sauce.

Or, you can do what peacy does... just smoke 'em.

I spent the summer tossing a popper with a nymph dropper to blue gills.  The popper was so small that a beadhead would just about sink the popper.  I watched thousands of gills hit the nymph and spit it faster then I could lift or strip to set the hook and the popper never moved.  After this summer I'm convinced that I miss more than I see.