Outside Bend Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Maybe it's sick, but I like watching fish kill stuff. I like watching trout smash caddis or grasshoppers on top. I like watching browns pounce on hellgrammite or stonefly patterns from behind boulders. I like watching fish run down and kill zonkers or muddlers. I like watching white bass slash at crease flies. I like watching largemouth or smallies suck down sneaky petes. I like watching bluegills inspect foam spiders before nonchalantly pulling them under. Heck, I like drifting little parachutes ten feet below me on the Current just to watch a dozen shiners annihilate them. To me, the visual thrill of the take is the best part- it doesn't really matter how you achieve it. <{{{><
Zach Bearden Posted February 23, 2011 Author Posted February 23, 2011 OB, you're just sick! I love watching a fish blow up on streamers or just slowly move across stream and intercept a bug. Both are pretty darn cool. "Its clearly Bree time baby!" Member: 2009 U.S. Youth Fly-Fishing Team. Competed Czech Republic. 7th Place Team Member: 2010 U.S. Youth Fly-Fishing Team. Competed Slovakia. 4th Place Team Member: 2010 U.S. Youth Fly-Fishing Team. Competed The America Cup. 4th Place Team
Members jasperflyfisher Posted February 23, 2011 Members Posted February 23, 2011 I like fishing at night in the summer when there is so much fog I don't have a clue where I am casting. It is fishing totaly by feel. When they hit it is pretty exciting.
duckydoty Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 All of the above...Can't pick just one, and to me, it just wouldn't be fishing if I didn't have the option of all of them. A Little Rain Won't Hurt Them Fish.....They're Already Wet!! Visit my website at.. Ozark Trout Runners
laker67 Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 I definately like the night fishing but my prefered method is a long leader with no indicator. Basically sight fishing with sow bugs and scuds. The thrill of watching a huge trout take your offering is similar to the huge brown chasing the streamer across the current. I prefer to land large fish on light tippet, so streamer fishing is not an option unless I change to 5x. Catching fish exactly the way each and every one of you prefer is the right approach. There is no right or wrong way as far as I am concerned. It has been said before, but I will say it again, the fly fishing members on this forum have a wealth of knowledge and experience that is second to none.
troutfiend1985 Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 I'm a dry fly guy first, indicator guy second. You would think that by compromise that I would love a dropper rig, but I never really seem to do that well on it. Give me an adams sz 18 and I'm happy. I also love hoppers. I love dry fly fishing whether for trout, bass or bluegill. I guess it was how I started fly fishing. Something about seeing the trout take it, and then setting the hook. Hard to describe. In all honesty, seeing a trout snub me probably gives me more of a rush, or at least something to complain about, which I like too. “The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people” J. Brandeis
Randall Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Streamers just turn me on... after watching the fish in my avatar crash a zoo cougar it was in my blood. Hoppers rock too but big nasty streamers just make me all tingly. Cute animals taste better.
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