{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Soft hackle challenge

Off to a reasonable start this weekend, even with leaky waders (there's another blow-out pair for the pile).  You always know you have a leak when you feel unusually cold for a given temp. 

Sight-casted 2 small catfish with a tung-bead soft hackle.  Always cast to them and they seldom move for anything.  Don't know why they did yesterday.  

Caught one of the most hefty sunfish I've ever caught on a "pheasant and red".  Pic not great, but that dude was probably close to 1" thick.  

Lost count of other sunfish, small bass, etc.  Couple of crappie. 

Gave up my spot earlier today for a guy and his kid who were fishing from the bank -- they looked like they were having a good time. 

Gene 

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:37:06 AM UTC-5, namfos wrote:

Gene, funny you should mention "super normal stimulus" and the link takes one to a Wikipedia page with an Earth Mother figurine - something that figured largely, along with the "sacred fire," in my long ago and still influential undergraduate education. Good point about having enough room to "lift."  As for the upstream method, it's IMO about the same level of difficulty as high-sticking with nymphs (and no bobbers, er, indiicators) On vacation in Ontario each year soft hackles and flymphs are true slayers of sunfish for the frying pan - esp  on a 3 or 4 wt.

Mark

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:20:06 AM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:

I've read some things about Nemes and I own and have read the Hughes book quite a bit.  Stewart was before both of them and was a proponent of the upstream method, which to me is possibly the hardest thing to master in fly fishing. 

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