Anyone Fly fishing?

[Paddy]

We were recently in the Tetons and Yellowstone areas and saw a lot of fly fishers along the small rivers. We staoped as a guy was catching a fish. Turned out to be a white fish.

I have played with a fly rig, but I roll cast. That is where you get the end of the line out there by whipping the tip in a circle to get the business end to either move out or left/right. We used a tiny bit of worm and the bluegills hit along the shore. The idea was the bait hits the water and if just a few seconds there is no action, you whip it again.

I saw a few videos on fly fishing and the type of fly needs to match what ever "bug" is present at the time.

Some rivers out west have invasive trouts that the DNR wants you to keep, i.e. no catch and release. I'd like to do my part to help : )

Anyone fly fish, out west?

 

[oosik]

Its difficult to believe - no takers so far. Well - I was taught by my father that fly fishing was the only way to fish. From a very early age - out on the lawn - proper position - proper wait - proper cast. He and I - every spring - over on some of the rivers on the West side - spring steelhead fishing with large wet flies. I think I have dry fly fished every lake with trout in NE WA state.

Then there is the ever present discussion - bamboo or fiber glass ( now, carbon fiber ). I have a VERY SPECIAL bamboo rod - specially made and presented to him by the CEO of the Orvis company. My father was somewhat of a legend in the fly fishing community.

I don't know if he ever understood why I would fish for salmon - any other way - during my stay in Alaska.

 

[wngsprd]

I do some fly fishing, but only in Virginia so far...bucket list includes a return trip to several rivers I viewed while hiking out west.

Oosik, sounds like your dad was very fortunate to receive that rod.

 

[plowhog]

After years of using bait and lures, I pretty much only fly fish now. Really satisfying to imitate bugs and insects, fool the trout, catch it, and return it to the stream to do again some time.

Never heard of trout overpopulations. Where are those?

 

[houstonscott]

I’ve been fly fishing for over fifty years now, since I live in Texas it’s hard to get out. I fished the high country in Yosemite last summer, luckily before the fires. Need readers to to change out flys but if there’s trout there I’ll take them. I love dry flys and fish them hard, really starting to like stimulators I can see them better in late evening. As I have gotten older I’m down to fly fishing and photography.

 

[oosik]

plowhog - the "invasive trout" situation is more a species situation than a numbers deal. There are some species of trout than simply do not mix well with other species of trout. However - as you can expect, if this situation continues - unchecked - it will most likely become a numbers situation.

In Alaska - when I worked for ADF&G - we planted rainbow trout into a large lake with an established population of big 'ol lake trout. It - over about five years - became the undoing of the lake trout. The rainbows out competed the lakers - for food - and the established population of lakers simply died out. A lesson was learned - I hope. Evaluate the current food situation prior to introduction of a competitive species.

 

[MossRoad]

My wife and I were on vacation last week. We drove down to the Ozarks and bummed around for 6 days. One day we stopped at a trout hatchery..... while I find the raising of the trout quite interesting, and I do fish myself, I found the whole spectacle of hundreds of people standing at the inflow and outflow of the hatchery catching a very human conditioned and stupid fish on every cast to be quite comical. It was ridiculous!!!

I used to fish Indiana's opening day of put-and-take trout fishing. Again, I found it ridiculous. Elbow to elbow with a bunch of people catching hatchery raised fish on just about every cast. I gave it up after a few years.

 

[MossRoad]

plowhog - the "invasive trout" situation is more a species situation than a numbers deal. There are some species of trout than simply do not mix well with other species of trout. However - as you can expect, if this situation continues - unchecked - it will most likely become a numbers situation.

In Alaska - when I worked for ADF&G - we planted rainbow trout into a large lake with an established population of big 'ol lake trout. It - over about five years - became the undoing of the lake trout. The rainbows out competed the lakers - for food - and the established population of lakers simply died out. A lesson was learned - I hope. Evaluate the current food situation prior to introduction of a competitive species.

Just check out the Great Lakes.... they opened the St. Lawrence Seaway, and alewives came in. They overpopulated the lake, so they brought in Salmon. Sea lamprey came in and decimated the native lake trout. Gobies, zebra mussels.... now asian carp is gonna be the next big threat if they come through Chicago. It never ends once man puts his fingers in it.

 

[bunyip]

I fly fish in fresh and salt water and love chasing perch in estuaries, a type of bass.
Surf is good when conditions are right but I love small streams and trout, our season is about to start.
Heading to Tasmania in January to get amongst the bigger trout in the lakes system.
I wade, kayak and float tube, prefer dry fly but a big streamer on dark gets some big hits in the lakes when the mudeyes are active (dragonfly larvae).
Fish from a #2 to#10 rod depending on where but 5-6 is my weapon of choice, using Penn, Loomis imx, st croix and a few others.

 

[/pine]

IMO the ultimate in fly fishing is Tarpon...although there have been other large sport fish (sails and even marlin) caught on fly rods after being teased up in off shore waters...Tarpon are available to anyone with a kayak or even wading...

The current and pending world records for fly fishing are closing in on over 200#'s