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Originally Posted by secondcurve
HB:
Nice looking fish. I'm curious, what type of approach/flies were they using to catch those Rainbows, were they trolling streamers?
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Nope, they were wading the river, casting upstream and dead-drifting wooly buggers tied on a #16 hook. it's called "Nymphing". This time of the year all the action is on the drift, not the retrieve. Bugs hatch out of the riverbed and crawl along the bottom. The current shakes them loose and they go bouncing and rolling down the river. Trout hang in the current and see them rolling at em. It's an easy feed: the trout edges over, opens his yap and the nymph just washes into his mouth. Nymphing replicates that - you tie on a buggy fly, flip it upstream and let it drift along the bottom using a floating line. The strike tends to be subtle: you have to watch your line closely. If it stops in mid-swing SET THE HOOK!
Upstream Nymphing with Oliver Edwards (Fly... by peshinka