FLY FISHING HELP! PLEASE!?
Posted by admin on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Ive been fishing for ages, but I recently I bought a Redington RS4 combo with the rise reel, 6 weight. I just came home from fishing the Green river where the pinks are running, and had no luck catching them whatsoever. Everyone else was using their spinning set ups (I have one too but wanted to fly fish), but does spinning work better? Or do I just need to be patient with my fly rod? Any fly fishing advice would be amazing. I feel like I just wasted 300$ and that I will never catch a fish on my fly rod.
Filed in Fly Fishing Rods | 3 responses so far
jcon 17 Feb 2010 at 8:20 am 1I learned how to fly fish and what to use by going to the most populated fishing hole and finding an old local man and asking him if he would mind to show me a few tricks. He showed me everything he knew. Now when we vacation out there i always meet up with him buy him breakfast and he takes me to the honey holes. Older people have so much knowledge about every thing and most of them are eager to share if you will just ask.
PS you might even make a friend
Kevin Bon 17 Feb 2010 at 8:43 am 2It’s easy and not uncommon to get frustrated when you first start fly fishing. First of all you have to have a decent arsenal of different flies for the picky and stubborn fish. Secondly you should learn different techniques of presenting your fly. Heres a good method of presenting a streamer. It’s called “Quartering Downstream”:
-Stand at a 90 deg. angle to the river, upstream a bit from your intended target hole.
- Lets say straight ahead of you is Noon.
- Cast to a 1 to 2 o’clock position ahead of where the fish are laying.
- “Swing” your fly through the area where you think, or can see, that the fish are.
- Once your fly has completed it’s swing…let it sit in the current for a few seconds and just flutter. Then strip it in at different speeds.
I use this method for Steelhead here in Ohio and it draws some vicious strikes. I don’t see why pinks wouldn’t act the same.
One more thing…make sure your fly is weighted enough to stay close to the bottom. The fish can be fussy about coming up for a fly so try yo swing it right past their nose.
Good Luck and don’t get discouraged, it’ll happen. Trust me.
Steven Mon 17 Feb 2010 at 9:19 am 3I’m new to this also. Your not alone with this problem. As the summer wore on and I practiced and fished with my Fly Rod I got better and caught more fish. When I first started I would be happy with one fish. Sometimes I counted strikes as that all I could count on. Now after 4 months of reading, practicing, and fishing I was able to catch 8 fish in two hours last week. Think of Fly Fishing as a challenge and something to master. When you first picked up your first spincasting combo you weren’t a expert fishermen with that at first. Hang in there, read, research, practice and learn. As time goes by you’ll be dropping a grand for a upgrade and smiling all the while.