Fly fishing today and it sucked

Nester

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Man, not like riding a bike is it? My technique just sucked today and had perhaps a dozen wind knots and couldn't get my cast out past 3 meteres :(
frustrating and I didn't get any better. Lessons might be in order :p then again it was a tad windy.

Flipped over to just using the pickeral jig and rod and came home empty handed. Ah well, good time spent with friends and had a nice day.


Anyone interested in a seeing a nice whitetail doe; Dickson Pond has one floating on the south side in about 2 feet of water :eek:
 
A bad day of fishing is still better than a good day of working. Unless you lose an eye or appendage that is. Or your boat sinks with the insurance expired.
 
First time out each year, I usually go play at the local lake. Shallow and wide open, sheltered from the wind so I don't have to fear those rusty-technique snags.

Still make a mess of it once in a while thought. ;)
 
Nester said:
Man, not like riding a bike is it? My technique just sucked today and had perhaps a dozen wind knots and couldn't get my cast out past 3 meteres :(
frustrating and I didn't get any better. Lessons might be in order :p then again it was a tad windy.

Flipped over to just using the pickeral jig and rod and came home empty handed. Ah well, good time spent with friends and had a nice day.


Anyone interested in a seeing a nice whitetail doe; Dickson Pond has one floating on the south side in about 2 feet of water :eek:
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Wind knots usually just means that you aren't timing your cast properly. Make sure you load your rod before attempting the next stroke.
 
Today was very good, getting better and actually no wind knots today.

Went back and did a look through the LL Bean Flyfishing book I got last summer and threw in the Scientific Angler DVD. Man, I was seriously putting in way too much zip into it. No zip needed actually. There was a fella was out there on his floater boat and was a maestro with his fly rod! Amazing to watch him


Heading out tommorow, who knows I might even catch a fish on it :dancingbanana:


120 more days and I might just be half ass :redface: Thanks for the help :)
 
sherlockbonez said:
Don't forget to tie your knots nicely, don't ask about how I popped the tippet off a 3lb hen last night.
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Just this morning I read a good article in this month's Field and Stream (May) about fishing knots. They tested the most common fishing knots, from both spincast and fly, with various lines and graded them for strength retention.

Somewhat surprising how weak some of the most popular knots were, and the blood knot was one of them. Looks like I may have to try the Seaguar for my tippet connections. They also talked about poor dressing, and not lubricating the knot reducing the strength by up to 30%. That probably explains where most of my flies go after the first ten casts. ;)

And all this time I thought it was the monster ghost fish just taking em. :eek:
 
Was doing the same thing myself yesterday and had some success. Caught these 5 bows on an 8.5 foot 5 wt. Kunnan rod, scientific anglers 6 wt wf floating line and a black wooly bugger on a # 6 size hook tied to my own hand tied tippets with an 8lb. leader as the final piece in the tippet. I know it probably sounds wrong having a 6 wt line on a 5 wt rod but the rod has some real good backbone to it and it throws the 6 wt line with ease. Smallest trout was about 14" long, largest topped out at 3 pounds. Live released them all without even handling them by hand, simply landed them in a rubber mesh net, pulled out the hook and let them go. My fly was completely destroyed by fish #4, it's the one in the water in the net. Was about 2 pounds and just kept leaping and tailwalking! Had to tie on a new fly, thankfully I had spares of the same. The fish in the net with the bulldog underneath was the largest at about 18" long and 7" deep, was a good 3 pounds, not a great pic but you can see the size in relation to the bulldog. By the way, these were stocked in my father-in-laws pond and it was the first time since stocking them they were ever fished for. We knew they had survived but had no idea how they were doing, looks like they are doing fine and look well fed. There is no shortage of feed in the pond. When we put them in we had purchased them all in the 10"-12" range so the largemouth in the pond hopefully wouldn't eat them. The largest had a triangle shaped scar in his back, fairly recent from a brush with a blue heron. Guess he was too much for the heron to handle!
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the spank said:
... I know it probably sounds wrong having a 6 wt line on a 5 wt rod ...
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Not at all !

Although it's not all that common for a rod marked with a specific weight to be comfortable and effective with a lighter line weight... many newer rods can and do handle a line a weight heavier than marked.

Several manufacturers offer lines with specific tapers sized 1/2 weight heavier
than standard made specifically to more effectively load todays faster action rods.

That old HDH line from the 60's on a deep flexing vintage bamboo or fiberglass
rod from the same era may work just fine together... but the backbone of todays higher quality stiff, tip action graphite/boron rods simply overpowers such a line. Just not enough mass to load the rod properly. The 5 weight line that you can cast delicately 20 feet on a slow action rod just wont cut the mustard when you're trying to double-haul a 70 footer into the breeze with a fast action rod. Conversely, that same 5 weight tip-action "cannon" is going to be tough to fish in close.

Even good quality lines of the same weight and type from different manufacturers react differently on a particular rod. Although a little pricey to fool with, you'll find each rod "likes" a particularly brand and taper of line better than others.
 
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