Caught a new species.
And there were plenty of trout. But getting any of these species to actually bite took some doing. They were exuberantly splashing, feeding, and defending territory, but quite selective.
I caught the small perch first. That took only 5 minutes, using one of my red/green "candycane" flies. But I got impatient after following up with it for a while. So I changed flies. I figured the small grey ghost would take more perch. Nope. So I went to the midge with the orange tail that worked yesterday. It did get hit--but couldn't hook up--until I found the minnow. Then it found nothing else. I then went to my little black fly. Nothing. With weight. Nothing.
Then I put on a sulfur. And dead drifted it patiently. You could see that some swirls were clearly from bigger fish. I saw one particular circulation going on and put dead drifts over it. Soon enough I got a touch. Some minutes again but hooked up! That was the first trout, and he / she found a snag after a good long fight--as I was pulling it to the final approach. It went under the snag and when I waded out to clear it, I was hooked to the snag and the fish was gone--clever fish!
The sulphur got no more love so I impatiently went to one of my deadly inventions" a #16 maribou streamer. How can you have such a small streamer? Well, attitude and method. It caught three trout. The first one, I had been dead drifting it -- and there was a big splash over where I had the fly, so I lifted--and hooked--and it was a tough fight. Well no wonder--I snagged the pectoral fin!
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The next two I took when I tired of trying dead drifts, and started tiny jerk strips. No rod movement, just an inch at a time. That worked wonders. Got a really beautiful one this way next:
Vide is better than the photos:
The final one was in pitch black and fished exactly the same way.
As I reeled up my line, I hooked up a fifth but it got off quickly.
So satisfying!
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