06-15-2018, 12:26 PM
Well at least you didn’t tell them they don’t have to bother with microflies [
]. I always liked the Webe as I seldom had to resort to anything smaller than a size 12 or 14 to consistently land fish. Size 10 tungsten bh Prince nymph and streamers outfiish worms most of the time. Cloudy days I’d be throwing a size 8-12 pearl zonker. Something dark on sunny days. Worm patterns only outperformed this for me on quite high water. Midge patterns universally were less productive anytime anywhere on the Webe for me.
The key to all trout fishing is getting the fly to were the fish is. So if there isn’t much dry activity it’s always getting it down to the fish is feeding. It’s why a dry dropper is such a poor choice unless your content to covering less water and catching less fish. And a bounce rig just has too unnatural drift too much of the time to begin to be as productive. That realistic drift is far more important than which nymph you select.
It’s also why the Provo is such a suboptimal place to learn to fly fish as the skills you learn there aren’t what you need to fish 95% of the intermountain region streams well.
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]. I always liked the Webe as I seldom had to resort to anything smaller than a size 12 or 14 to consistently land fish. Size 10 tungsten bh Prince nymph and streamers outfiish worms most of the time. Cloudy days I’d be throwing a size 8-12 pearl zonker. Something dark on sunny days. Worm patterns only outperformed this for me on quite high water. Midge patterns universally were less productive anytime anywhere on the Webe for me.The key to all trout fishing is getting the fly to were the fish is. So if there isn’t much dry activity it’s always getting it down to the fish is feeding. It’s why a dry dropper is such a poor choice unless your content to covering less water and catching less fish. And a bounce rig just has too unnatural drift too much of the time to begin to be as productive. That realistic drift is far more important than which nymph you select.
It’s also why the Provo is such a suboptimal place to learn to fly fish as the skills you learn there aren’t what you need to fish 95% of the intermountain region streams well.
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