Went up for a looksy

I had to got to town so I stopped by a few spots for a looksy.  Pressure was sure low today down low, maybe 15 people from behind the muffler shop to the  bend.   Watched for 20 minutes or so and no hook ups.   Ball park had 2 cars, 81 hole had 4 or 5 cars  and the staircase was pretty empty too.  When I was in town watching I was picking out spots where I  would have casted, I think next time water is high I may give it a try, but probably with my spinning rod.

Watched a video of aka . Snagger wher he had said 40 hookups using the fly rod in the high water. If not mistaken there were at least 4 PAC- Man size shots on that rig. Yup high stick em .. Lol

Yup clint... just remember, with persistent mending, bottom bouncing or lower water column "can" be achieved... and when all else fails, a tight lined swing can always be used... always use enough weight to allow your fly to swing straight down though... you can often get a grab when its straight down from ya ;)


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...As little weight to allow a full drift...

Upriver was busy in spots. I got  a shark on a leech, a domestic on a psycho prince and had 2 chrome jumpers spit at me on small oregon cheese eggs. All fair .
From those I saw and talked to, I did average to good. Wasn't hard to fish the 1200 in the zones without lots of weight.  At least I hung up very, very little.  Fair amount of people around the Pineville bridge. I ended the day there- noone had anything good to say.   Can't wait to go back Th. thru Sat.  Nancy bought me a new Rio Switch line for my B-Day.  Even ordered it from Fish USA.
 

PS  he also has a post somewhere where he talks about people saying the people in Altmar are snaggers and litterers but all the trash is down by town.
 
Funny thing is all his lodgers have been down standing in the runs at the ballfields blocking fish and below the long bridge doing the same thing.
So the way I see it wherever his devotees are the worst actions are.
 
He also complains about the people snagging steelheads.
Did a spit take of the morning brew reading that comedy.
Can't make this stuff up.
Nobody would believe it.

Lucky,  I have been thinking in terms of some of the flies some guides and I worked on for driftboats on trout rivers. We found incorporating rubber legs (like sili-legs which have great movement) in a helical pattern into estaz or chenille both provided movement and  illusion of size (profile). Kind of like an ultra wooly bugger.
Another thing to experiment with. For now, I need to get some steel on the bank with nice, easy eggs and nymphs.  Hope I run into you, Dime. I'll be camping  at Stoney's.

i have a very affective helgramite pattern...one of the guys at the BP fly shop came up with it a couple years ago....closest thing to real i've seen and not hard to tie

Fichy, I can't do the link thingy, but check out Floyd franks Delaware river hellgramite pattern... we used to fish it for trout In the Delaware system and do well back in early 90's. If you could post the link that would be cool. We didn't get as intricate as the true pattern did but close enough and it worked great. The long shank streamer hook bent upwards by the eye of the hook gives it a nice twitching action i'd suppose... if I could only shake this 5-9 working schedule i'd be tying away at my vise. My son has tied more flies than me in the last few months... "all of which are american dreams"... or so they say ;)

Thanks gerry... it really is an easy fly to tie and its highly effective. Gotta love the closing statement he concludes with... "if you're not ticking bottom you're not using enough weight"... and this is coming from a purist minded fly fisher... I love to tie flies that have a pull forward head or pulled back head/ body... couple that with hackle feathered beards, tails, or shucks... man that's fly fishing to me... used to fish natural nymph patterns on a straight tight line down stream above pockets for trout and have trout hammer them. Then fish the same patterns other times on a dead drift... Fly fishing to me is thinking out of the box. There's no rule. You can create you're own rhythm given the conditions presented to you. The text books can tell you the best case scenarios but they go right out the door in most cases... nothings perfect, or at least rarely perfect text book conditions.
I hope some of you folks tie this fly up and have success with it. As my family and I enjoyed much success in the north western cats and upper Delaware and its tribs.