250 Amazing Fishing Tips: The Best Tactics and Techniques to Catch Any and All Game Fish by Lamar Underwood

Author:Lamar Underwood
Format: epub
Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

122. Spring Creeks: Superb Trout Destinations

Flowing up clean and cold from aquifers and chalk beds inside Mother Earth, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, spring creeks are worth every hour and every cent trout addicts spend to find and fish them. Here are trout you can see, prolific insect hatches, and easier wading than the rough-and-tumble freestone streams. They are tough to fish, but . . . so what? You can find plenty of them in Pennsylvania, scattered throughout the upper Midwest and far West, and in England the chalk streams are angling destinations to die for.

123. When You Can’t Match the Hatch

One of the most frustrating experiences in trout fishing is to find yourself in the midst of a big hatch of insects, with trout taking them eagerly, and you just can’t seem to get the right fly onto them. This happens all the time with hatches like the tiny Tricos. Instead of letting frustration overwhelm you, try putting on a fly that totally changes the pace of what’s going on. Use a No. 16 Royal Wulff or Fan-Winged Royal Coachman, for instance, or a buggy terrestrial imitation. And there’s always room for the Adams, the go-to fly when nothing else is working. The Stimulator ranks high with go-to flies also.

124. When Rain Is Your Friend

No one especially likes fishing in the rain—and thunderstorms are downright dangerous—but there are times when rain comes in just the right amounts at the right time to get trout moving and feeding. The rain washes all kinds of terrestrials and morsels into the stream, and the trout go after them with vigor. The only way you’ll find out if it’s a “good rain” or “bad rain” is to be out there. Chances are you’ll have the stream to yourself. And, whatever you do, don’t miss the spots where other streams or runs pour into the main river.

125. Where the Road Leaves the River

Some fishing tips seem so simple—like sharpening your hooks—that most people probably ignore them. A simple one that I hope you will not ignore is this: Fish where the road leaves the river. Walk to where the crowds don’t go, and you will be rewarded with better trout fishing. Most people will not walk there. They just won’t do it. At a health club I sometimes go to for workouts, I watch in fascination as people maneuver and jostle their cars into parking positions close to the front door. All that so they don’t have to walk a couple hundred feet across a big parking lot. Walking . . . to do the very thing they came to the club for, getting exercise. It makes no sense. Neither does not walking into the woods to fish where you can’t see the road. But that’s what people do.

126. Sulphurs: The Year’s Best Fly Hatch

In the West they have the glorious Pale Morning Dun hatches that fill the air with greenish-yellow bugs. In the East and upper

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