Rob Snowhite
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I fish a lot of heavily weighted streamers.
I fish them with a floating line, a long leader, tied on with a loop knot, and use split shot in this order: 2bb –> 1 3/0 –> 2 3/0 (increasing size as needed)I don’t normally dead drift them but do so every now and then. I will sometimes tie on a nymph dropper where legal.
there is a bandage type material like that now. it is stretchy, comes in a roll, and a variety of colors
you can wrap it around (like an ace bandage) an iv instead of using cotton or plastic tape and it sticks to itself.
it is re-usable as i have tried it around the house and fly body material.
we sold something similar in breckenridge that is used to wrap your rods together.
this looks much more versatile and i can think of one who would approve
line on water is bonded to the water via adhesion. (two unlike/not the same molecules bonding- pvc:water) the line is adhering to the water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesion
the water molecules themselves are bonded together via cohesion (two of same bonding together- water:water), this allows the line to float via the surface tension. if water is still bonded to your line during your cast, then yes, it will be heavier (until the velocity/force of the cast makes it falls off)
you have to pull the line away from this bond -breaking the bond. that tension might be what you are feeling as weight. this allows you to load your line on the water and reduce false casting. just pick it up and throw it in the direction you want.
same thing if you wear contact lenses, you have to break that bond from the lens to your eyeball that is held there by moisture.
casting on grass, the line just sits on the blades. you might feel tension form the microscopic silica in the grass that is catching the line when you pull the line off.
wet line weight compared to dry line weight reminds me of the term that someone skinny person is 110lbs wet when they look maybe 100lbs.
hope that make sense
I did a float on the roaring fork in sept a few years ago.
Tossing big streamers against the bank. One of the best days out for me. 80 and blue bird skies all day and 4″ of snow that night.
I’ve always wanted to do the Black Canyon so my vote would go there for your options.
Any small stream should have brookies. Tiger Road outside Breck is loaded with them. That was my go to spot for brookies on a 1wt after work.
I spent spring break ’98 down there for my tropical ecology course. Priority wasn’t fishing but I brought an outfit with me just in case we had time to ourselves.
I fished the south shore in 1998 around La Paraguera (near the phosphorescent bay) with not much luck. Lots of mangroves down there and white sandy flats. This spot isn’t too far and would be a spot I’d try again.
There were plenty of fish and some rolling tarpon. This was the fishiest looking spot of the whole trip.
I caught a baby bass with my bare hand (booya) in a drainage ditch somewhere near El Junque (which received 19 inches of rain in about 3 hours the day we arrived, that was insane = all streams up there were blown out)
There was a nice park on the north west coast with a tunnel in the rocks along the beach that looked promising.
I did some casting around the jetties in a neighborhood to the east of San Juan and didn’t catch anything. I ended up hanging out with the baitfisherman who were reeling in bonefish and jacks left and right.
Viques is on my list of places to visit. From the pics my cousin took on a vacation it looks like a promising DIY fishing location.
here is a link for great lake fishing – new york
there are some good articles http://www.flyguysoutfitting.com/tips.html
hooking into a steelhead is one of the great fly fishing experiences
i’ve been saving the latest two for my road trip up to paw paw w. va this evening.
with dc traffic on a friday, i’ll prob finish both episodes before getting out of the beltway >:(
i get my feathers now on ebay. some nice and inexpensive stuff up there.
my last order didn’t specify the feather size so i ended up with a mini ostrich plume
haven’t been in years
we fished the flat near the big anchor on the bay side and the jetty on the opposite side -ocean-for trout and stripers.
foam toad looks great, i’ll try that for summer bass
and just got my chasing tarpon dvd in the mail 🙂
Great pics. Fish and plants- trillium/ramps.
I have yet to find wild ramps, though I’ve never really looked for them.
I have never seen a fish eat water striders or whirligig beetles.
These insects can be out and about in great numbers yet never appear to be eaten. They look like an easy meal yet move about the surface un molested by fish below.
Might they taste bad?
Why don’t fish eat them?
crane flies, family Tipulidae
they congregate on overhanging banks and around outdoor lights at night
the distinct marking or characteristic of them (besides their size) is the tennis racket, dimunitively sized hind wings called halteres.
knew a girl in college who thought they were mosquitos, called them ‘mosquito hawks’
thankfully mosquitos don’t get that big.
I caught (did not land) a HUGE trout on a sunken whitlock mouse on the dream stream in colorado in the daytime.
Tom caught and broke off a trout on the same pattern in the afternoon on the Little J in pennsylvania in 2000. The trout broke his 3x leader about 3 feet from the fly.
No luck on foam mouse yet.
I’ve got a question about use of flourocarbon tippets.
Flouro is supposed to be invisible to fish right?
Unless someone is fishing hooks with tiny eyes and needs a small diameter tippet, I see no reason to use really light flouro tippets -that could break off on a fish, snags, and on back casts into trees.If a fish can’t see the stuff why should I use 5x flouro from brand ABC for drifting nymphs when I have a spool of 8lb or 10lb Seagur flouro?
Why use 4x flouro for steelhead for an egg sucking leech when one can use 10lb material?
If one can cast decently, turn over flies etc on a variety of tippets, why the need for the small stuff?
Invisible is invisible is it not?
I’ve got some more that I’ve been pondering…
edit: rob snowhite, alexandria va
