Beginner Problem: Drag Free Drift
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Yep, I thought the 1st diagram was from Paul and must have been mid post when the 2nd was put up. Mark, sorry for calling you Paul. Cool diagrams.
What kind of water are you fishing this rig in? I have seen it’s praises sung many times. I just can’t see how you keep everything in line without diturbing the indicator every few feet. The float guys strive for the same drift, but they are stringing shot out all along the leader and balancing comparatively big floats. Plus they are using ginormous rods of 15+feet to check the float along it’s drift to compensate for the faster surface currents. Interesting.
when setting up your dropper rig, how far do you tie the second fly from the first? does it really matter?
steve,
we received a little rain here yesterday, as i’m sure you did also. it didn’t have any real effect on the streams. a few of the large ones are little more stained but not bad. the water temps have been coming up from sundays low and i’ve been hearing about some great fishing going on.
how’s the fishing in your area? i’m probably going to pick up a new york license here soon and get over the state line. have you ever fished chautaqua creek? i have a buddy that was just up there and said that he loves it. not a lot of fishing pressure. he didn’t catch any steelies but got a couple of nice browns.
tight lines! paul
Paul, we can only fish one fly in NY, except on the reservation, where you can rig up how you want. When I do use a dropper I like to make the distance between flies about the same distance apart as the length of the average fish I catch. Where I can use two flies that is 22-24″. I used to have a horrible problem with secondary foul hooks until I started doing this. Problem solved for the most part.
When I first got married and pre-yungin days we lived minutes from Chautauqua creek and I probably spent more time on it than I did at home. I still live within 20 minutes of it. I only fish it once in a while now because it is so hit and miss if it will be a zoo, or not. It certainly gets some tremendous numbers of fish and is worth a trip for you. Go during the week. The village of Westfield has a reservoir several miles up stream and they blow their filters into the stream every day at about 11:00 and it really muddies up for several hours. Go early, or better yet, wait until the afternoon and you can hit a magical dropping/clearing water period everyday and hopefully most of the people will be gone.
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i wanted to share with you some pictures of a steelhead that i caught. thank you all for your help and steve154 it was great speaking with you and i look forward to the chance to fish with you if you get up to the erie area.
i got out for a few hours today. the water is up and off color, but, the fishing is going to be good tomorrow and for the next few days in erie. all of the fish are there and really spread out. the bite was tough today because the temps have really dropped but i was able to tempt this beauty with my own mysis shrimp pattern (i’m calling it the estaz mysis). enjoy and tight lines!
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