Ten Tips for Catching Wild Trout
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Some of you guys might find this helpful:
9 out of 10 not bad
Zach, great tips. Number 7 has got significant merit but suffers in rivers that are wide and large. While upstream approaches can be extraordinarily effective, one can actually cover extensively much more water fishing a downstream approach on wider rivers. Rivers that are wide, where wading is limited to the periphery, downstream approaches allow far more water coverage than any possible upstream approach for good casters My bible on upstream approaches is an obscure title: Worming and Spinning for Trout, by Jerry Wood, 1959. Although it has nothing to do with fly fishing or downstream approaches, it provides some essential clues to successful downstream streamer fishing in large rivers.
Strategy without Tactics is a Slow Route to Victory, Tactics without Strategy is the Noise Before Defeat - Sun Tzu
That’s a fair point Mike, and to be honest these tips really are not targeted at Western anglers much at all. You guys have so much more wild trout water than we do here in the East. Probably the widest streams with wild fish populations here (targetable wild fish populations, not those mixed in with de-sensitized stocker trout) would be in the lower reaches of the Smokies, like Abrams, Hazel and Eagle Creeks. Even there the water’s never more than a cast across, although there are plenty of big fish.
Zach
That was a great article. I am surrounded by tailwaters which presents there own set of challenges, but on trips out west I find myself struggling to fish the myriad of currents and pocket water. One bit of slack in the line and there is no hookup.
Mike
Here is a link to the opening of streams in the GSMNP. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/trout07_93857100
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