ORIGINAL: MackJ
 Nonetheless, I thought this might help to take some pressure off D-Nymph when he is camping out in the Manchester Hole.

 
I don't believe this is true. 

Well, one of my favorite places to fish fast water, around ten AM is *spot burn* right after I hit *spot burn* first thing in the morning. And you would NOT believe how many fish I've found holding in the fast deep water just below *spot burn*.   And guys just walk right past me on their way to fish *spot burn*.  One day #name drop# and I were fishing *spot burn* and three other guys just paused and told us there were no fish there.    # name drop# was hooked up at the time, and fighting a fish.  He was using a * competitors product not sold at Fishusa * with a  *secret* tied just above a #special# while slow bouncing it through the riffle.  Hope this helps.

muddy fast water is fishable with a heavy split shot or a carolina rig
 
single-egg on a hook is all you need.. just plop it in at the top and let it roll through, rinse, repeat
 
bright-green clear-plastic egg in anise oil.. boom! get the net
 

I have invited anyone who wishes to examine my post history to do so. They will find that if I am not arguing against people complaining about spot-burning and information/condition-sharing, I am trying to be helpful. In addition, you will rarely see me posting to request information, and probably never asking about where to fish, what to fish with and where the fish are. I know very little about steelhead fishing the Erie tribs, but I know some more than others. What motivates my argumentativeness is that there are people who know tons more about technique and interpreting conditions as well as spots to fish, yet not only will they not share it (which is their right), but seem to obfuscate, dissemble and interfere when others try to help. I'm not the only one these antics bother, just one of the few that will speak up about it.

ORIGINAL: anadromous

Normally your literary skills are impeccable but you do have a typo in the last sentence...

It has been corrected. I shouldn't have presumed you were familiar with the Latin form.

I have to agree with MackJ's assessment of steelhead holding in faster water. I find them easier to catch!

Spme of my most memorable hooks up have been in the fast water.. The fish just seem to be on the move and sometimes don*t seem to realize they are hook and take off like a bat outta hell. Kind of Similiar to a hooked real fresh fish in the lake that is a acrobat.
How far has anyone else had to chase down A good hooked steelhead or salmon in the streams over the years? I chased one near 1/4-3/8 mile+ as when it realized it was hooked it took off from well below Elk Park lower stretch and I didn*t catch up to it till 125-150 yards above the bend above the high tressel bridge. The fish only went 10lbs but was only 25 1/2 inch long and a fat football in shape...

ORIGINAL: indsguiz

Well, one of my favorite places to fish fast water, around ten AM is *spot burn* right after I hit *spot burn* first thing in the morning. And you would NOT believe how many fish I've found holding in the fast deep water just below *spot burn*.   And guys just walk right past me on their way to fish *spot burn*.  One day #name drop# and I were fishing *spot burn* and three other guys just paused and told us there were no fish there.    # name drop# was hooked up at the time, and fighting a fish.  He was using a * competitors product not sold at Fishusa * with a  *secret* tied just above a #special# while slow bouncing it through the riffle.  Hope this helps.

 
 

My opinion of fast water, fish don't exactly eat whatever your throwing at them, you more or less drift it into their mouths.. with slow water i believe fish eat what your throwing because it's alot harder to drift it into their mouths..

ORIGINAL: Eman89so

My opinion of fast water, fish don't exactly eat whatever your throwing at them, you more or less drift it into their mouths.. with slow water i believe fish eat what your throwing because it's alot harder to drift it into their mouths..

No one knows for sure why a fish will attempt to eat anything that passes by them, but the thinking of why fish seem to be more likely to hit a fly when they are in the fast water is that the fly goes by quickly and they do not have a good chance of looking at it, they react and bite it.  In the slower water the fish can examine the fly and have time to either eat it or let it go by.

True....  But sometimes they can be pretty closed mouthed...  Guess what I am thinking about is why are they sometimes more curious and want to check out the flies and other times do not seem interested.

ORIGINAL: Johnny_Johnson

You watch Rosie Odonnell?  

That's what causes the first reaction. He wants to make sure everything's still there.

two tubes of ritz crackers, smeared with real butter......and chased by my cholesterol pill.

ORIGINAL: Cold

ORIGINAL: Johnny_Johnson

You watch Rosie Odonnell?  

That's what causes the first reaction. He wants to make sure everything's still there.

LMAO, didn't think of it that way....