Strategies for Moving Water

The following is courtesy of Andrew Harris - Fly Fishing Guide/Author.  Please contact Andrew at www.confluenceoutfitters.com or www.andrewharrisflyfishing.com



As we fly fishers accumulate knowledge and experience on the water, we pass through alternating stages of rapid growth and stagnation. We’ll learn a new skill that allows us to explore new kinds of water, then struggle for several trips or maybe several seasons until we make the next breakthrough in technique or understanding. One of the most frustrating challenges occurs when an angler is first confronted with a type of stream that is significantly different from the water with which he or she is familiar. For me, the frustration began when I made the leap from fishing small freestone streams to fishing spring creeks and tailwaters. The yellow humpies and Montana stone nymphs that easily fooled trout on the tributaries to the Middle Fork Feather River would rarely tempt a fish on Hat Creek or the Lower Sac.

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