2014/11/23 08:35:26
twobob
Lucky13
The sight fisherman we shared water with a few weeks ago started doing a lot less watching the fish and a lot more playing legal ones after he saw us connect.  Even the one he said he force fed had the hook in the corner, with the egg up the line from the fight, and to place the fly that precisely without some help from the fish was quite a feat!


All true Lucky.
 
And I might add when I went back by myself he came down and hooked one up sighting.
I hooked 2 when my swing was maybe 5 feet above him.
The fish almost rolled into him on the thrashing take.
 
He stopped and we chatted a bit and then he went off somewhere else.
He didn't say it but I got the impression it was to let me fish the whole run undisturbed.
Also think he stopped and watched for a while since he didn't cross back over for a 1/2 hour or so.
 I think he was trying to figure out what we were doing.
2014/11/23 12:34:47
Lucky13
Like it is rocket science.  ll: Quarter upstream, throw a hard upstream mend, keep the end of the line leading the rod, mend as necessary through the drift to keep things straight, and follow the swing until everything is on your side, wait, because there is often that strong pull so hard to hook right at the end, ... Repeat, take a step down stream, repeat..... :ll  Same as a traditional swing, except for the 3/0 shot 2 feet or so up the leader to get the fly down to the fish a little more, and places like the tail of the meadow from the south side, you don't even want to be using the shot, just the fly in the film. 
2014/11/23 16:05:36
twobob
Well duh.
If it took using my think bone you don't believe for a second I would be swinging do you?
 

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