I walked down to the river...and scared everything away

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

😂 gotta sneakkkk up to the river. Lol.

Great tip! Can’t tell you how many times I’ve made this mistake. 😂😂😂

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

We all do it. Haha

Summer means HOPPER DROPPER!! Woohooo!!!!

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

You know it! 😎🤙🏽

Great tip. Also great for if you are walking through the woods to the stream as well. Will definitely save you a rod tip or two.

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 yeah… we’ve learned that one the hard way too.

Dude, this summer and fall was ALL midge fishing. We had huge stones, October caddis, and green drakes going off like crazy, but they’d refuse naturals and dries, unless they were midges. Sometimes, they like to keep you on your toes.

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Sometimes they just don’t like to cooperate do they? 😂 Where you based out of?

@DylanWOWilliams

Жыл бұрын

@@venturesflyco Haha seriously. I’m a guide on the Saint Joe river in North Idaho. All my dry fly purist clients just refused to nymph or streamer fish. First time I’ve ever had skunked clients.

Great advice Alex. I'll try to put it into practice !

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

For sure! Thanks for the comment. Good luck out there.

If you can see fish rising from where you’re parked then I tie a parachute adams to start and then work from there but sometimes rigging up by the river isn’t the easiest because sometimes there’s a lot of trees or bushes. Unlike that river which is a fly fisherman’s heaven 🔥

I just rig up a sow bug, they always catch fish everywhere in about any conditions even if there are no sow bugs in the water 😅 I will change if there’s a hatch because who doesn’t love dry flies? Or steamers if that’s what the conditions call for the day.

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

Honestly sounds like a pretty solid plan. 😎🤙🏽 Thanks for sharing!

Super cool!

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Generally, if theres weather, temperature, and fish in the water i like to use an adams.

@KimchiJerry

10 ай бұрын

That’s my go to from the start and I work from there

So true man 😂

Excellent advice

Buen vídeo Saludos

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias amigo!

Can you drop a nymph under a griffiths gnat dry? Or are they too small to carry something

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the size of the nymph and Griffiths gnat. It’s definitely possible. Here I was using a size 16 hi-vis griffith’s with a tiny size 22 midge emerger. Obviously nymphs with bead heads will be harder to hold up than those without. It comes down to trying out different combos and see what’s happens. Pretty easy to tell when your nymph is too heavy for the dry (sinks immediately after it lands on the water). Hope the helps! 😎🤙🏽

Good tip but since fly fishers say 'Match the hatch", you'd think it would almost be a no brainer to just rig up riverside 🤷‍♂️

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

Haha you would think so. A lot anglers fall into a rut where they just tie on the same flies every time without much thought. We’ve been guilty of it ourselves. 🤦🏽‍♂️😂

@CatchMyDriftfishing

Жыл бұрын

@@venturesflyco or a fisherman has a favourite lure/fly/bait and just want to stick with using it most times but the fish want something different that day. We could miss a lot of fish by not paying attention and be willing to change it up. I know I'm bad for fishing the same spot for too long, not wanting to give up lol 😅

Fishing is the best to pass the time I didnt say sport because i like basketball more but thats just me

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

Love it. Basketball is great. Thanks for the comment! 😎🤙🏽

Eyes and brain engage both before making that first cast. What worked yesterday last month or last year. Is not the best metric. Has there been rain during the night even a few miles upstream? More or less sunlight has the wind changed. So many things to consider. Cracking the code of what the fish are doing, what they want, recognising whatever changes are happening as they happen. Are the fish still taking the same hatching insects at the same stage of the life cycle. Pupa rising not hatching. Emerging. Adults returning. Spent dying adults. Are they still feeding on midges, or now are they olives, caddis, stonefly, corixa, are the fish now hitting fry or shrimp, bonus terrestrials? Miss any change and all you are doing is spooking the fish. That adult mayfly you spent ages getting it just right worked great in the calm of early June. Same spot in November with fish taking eggs and two inch long fry. Not ideal first choice on that later session.

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

All great points! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and insight.

patience...

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

😎

👍

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

😎🤙🏽

Tandem rig a mop fly with a dirt snake and chuck it at them. Why over think it. 😂😂😂

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 We like the way you think! Gotta do what you gotta do to put fish in the net.

The first mistake is fly fishing in the first place

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

😂 We’d have to disagree.

Please don’t listen to this guy put your rod together at the car but don’t put the fly on yet until you get to the river is what he should’ve said

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

Maybe should have clarified that a little bit better. 😂 Thanks for keeping us honest. 🤙🏽

Wow man you know it all !

@venturesflyco

Жыл бұрын

Not sure about all… haha but we know a few things. The great thing about fly fishing is there is always much more to learn.