Angler's Attention.

There's something that I have called 'angler's attention'. If I could scouse borrow away even an hour or 2, racing down to the stream I might go. In a virtual panic, scouring out my favourite fishing spots, then cursing to myself, when they were taken. Desperately I'd find a spot to fish, splash out there, and heave out my line. Fishing, at last, my heart would race, I might set the hook on any minute bump, and then have to untangle my line from a tree lurking behind me.

Besides natural aging what actually modified things for me, was essentially observing a fellow fly fisher. Essentially it was more observing him, observing me. Though this spot became 'discovered' sometime in the 90's, it is still comparatively pressure free after mid-June. He was quite a lot older then me at the point, but his presence somewhat frustrated me. The following 30 mins or so were spent debating fly fishing with this gentleman in strategies I'd never thought of before.

He appeared quite as content to stand and talk about fly fishing as he was supposed to basically be out doing it. Like all methodologies it's gone out and in of style over the generations. As new technologies are developed, fly fishing trends change, some things are labeled obsolete only to experience a re-birth later on. For who knows what reason the dropper fly has experienced a re-birth and its uses are becoming more sundry too. You can faster identify the 'hot fly', if fish hit one fly frequently you can dump the dropper fly. One is the sinker / sinker combo, and the other is the dry fly / dropper, often called the hopper / dropper as hopper patterns work really well for this. In the sinker / sinker combo, two sub-surface patterns, are used, customarily mixed with split shot weights. There are 2 trains of thought in the sinker / sinker combo. One is you attach the smaller fly first in the sequence and then attach the bigger fly,eg a stonefly sprite and fasten a split shot in between the flies. The idea here is the smaller fly, maybe an emerger pattern, will stay in the higher portion of the water column whilst the stonefly will sink down, towards the bottom, where the fish is most good to strike them. Stopping when the hatch slowed and beginning again when the hatch started. For those that customarily ignore the hints that Mother Nature gives you in solving the what will fish hit today puzzle. Then look closer, study the current sector of the fish you are attempting to lure. You'll be dazzled at the hatches you can observe from your auto, you wil end up investigating the bugs on your windshield.