Stingers?
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Two contrasting days on my favorite smallmouth stream. On the first, the water level was a bit high and murky, with a thickly overcast sky. A good number of blow-ups on the yellow popper I was twitching across the current and almost every one resulted in a fish brought to hand. On the second day, the creek level was a bit lower, and the sky a bit less cloudy. Even more blow-ups on the yellow popper than the first day but only about one in five resulted in a fish solidly hooked. It was as if the bass were trying to scare away the fly rather than eat it. I’ve had a similar frustrating experience with trout. You start thinking you’re setting the hook too quickly, ripping the fly away from the fish. I suppose that’s possible, but I think something else must be going on. I just don’t know what it is. Has anyone had much success with “stingers”–a hook tied off the bend of the fly-hook? Do they work? Or just result in a lot of fish snagged somewhere other than the mouth?
I find smallmouth to be very funny in the way they eat, and it seems they are all on the same program day-to-day.
Last week we did a float on a big smallie river and only 1 in five fish were hooked. They all ate it the same way- really lite bites, on the pause- on a LONG pause.
I would avoid the stinger hook.
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