When the fish are on emergers

[Anonymous]

Got out to one of my local rivers yesterday.

[clint stevenson]

One thing that I would try is to drop an emerger off of the dry. It will be hard to see the take on the emerger, but you can use the dry as an indicator. If it moves or goes down set the hook.

[andrew brown]

Sorry to hi-jack, but is there a how-to on how-to tie dropper flies?

I’ve search mid-current and the like and nothing really pops up.

Thanks.

[Tim Angeli]

I second the option of dropping an emerger off the dry.

[Anonymous]

One thing that I would try is to drop an emerger off of the dry. It will be hard to see the take on the emerger, but you can use the dry as an indicator. If it moves or goes down set the hook.

Yup…tried that to no avail.

And Tim…I actually thought about trying the streamer thing…but thought that to be to far out in left field.

[mike j]

I put floatant on a nymph and try to get it to ride in the film or right beneath it and strip it fairly quickly…

[Simon Chu]

Hi Tim
Sometimes its just a numbers game and when that fish is keyed into the top couple of inches, you just have to get as many passes over him as possible and normally right in his lane.

I carry several emergers but like cripples too. I’ll try and post some picks later tonight. Sometimes a twitch or skate and then dead drift in the fishes lane will get the response you are after. Kinda get their attention and then play dead ::) 😀

The fish wern’t taking spinners, were they? Maybe spents? Sometimes the take is so similar I get fooled.

Have you fished with Klinkhammers? I don’t use them preferring a very simple CDC pattern but the body profile of the emerger I use is vertical in the water column and has often made the difference.

I’ve also had the most frustrating few hours when fish have been rising everywhere but not for me. Presentation often yielded me better results than fly changes once I was sure I had what they were eating..

[Mike Cline]

Something else I’ve had work…strip streamers.  It sounds stupid, but one day on the Frying Pan my buddy landed 11 of 12 fish he saw “rising” to emergers on a big articulated circus peanut-like pattern.
-Tim

I am going to second Tim on this one.

[Anonymous]

Ah…live and learn.

I did try a Klinkenahmmer style fly but that did not produce.

[Aaron Otto]

Tim,

Looks like this may have ben mentioned above, but thought you could use a little more building out of the concept.  

[big dry    [EMERGER

[Simon Chu]

So heres a couple of emergers that I’ve been using
One is based on a Sanchez comparadun pattern and the other is CDC.

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