Hey -- I fished a very secret fishing hole twice over the weekend that sounds like "Funpowder". We busted out the wets in a traditional North Country rig and got ONE fish (and a few bumps). Slow -- not much success. Then my waders leaked while I watched a few fish rise to midge pupa....
-- Splashy rise, no bubble + midge adults flying around = pupa?? Help me out here.
Anyway, we quit after I couldn't get warm and started griping nonstop.
The second day I repeated (but with backup waders) the same success on wets, and said "nuts to this" and switched to the big, ugly flies I seldom throw for trout -- meat! Amazingly, we instantly had action on those stupid things and caught fish. I couldn't believe streamers actually catch trout -- who would've thought? My palmered rabbit seems to get matted up pretty badly. I need to add more rubber and hackle to the body I think. We got the best success dragging those suckers literally on the bottom, so I assume they're taking them as sculpins, which are awesome fish. I had to keep my hook sharpener in my front pocket for sure.
I need to add more streamer fishing to my approach. I really couldn't believe that I was enjoying myself with those on my line. I've resisted it because I hate America's youth enough at this point that I'll only go to daytime movies.
Midge fishing only produced 1 fish on a #24 pupa (7x) about 4" behind a small dry fly. I know people used that ginked leader technique, but I like the duo rig. Wandering up and down the stream it was easy to locate "midge" water. Any midge people out there have any advice on hooking up with more fish that are eating midges? And what's with the splashy rises? Do midges move to the film that quickly? The truck was covered in midges when we left.
In the middle, I did sneak over to 4MR and had some fun. There are a ton of small bass and yellow perch (and pumpkinseed) at the outfall and up-and-down the stream that will take small streamers like crazy. Didn't see much else other than two mallards biting each other.
Gene
http://www.tpfr.org
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