coldfeet
Well-Known Member
Witnessed a new salmon fishing method yesterday, another reason I usually avoid the river this time of year. After flinging practically every fly I had at an obviously uninterested salmon, swinging streamers, imitators in front of his nose, drifting single egg patterns, I was switching to the float rod and roe and was tying on, standing under a shade tree but still in the river. Another angler had lowholed me, then realised I was fishing there, waded through the hole to another hole and says I'll chase them down to you. Apparently, he "caught" ten that morning. He disappears for half an hour and returns probably figuring I'd gone. Stands 10 feet from me casts a couple of times and this salmon takes off past me, hooked in the tail, his line almost ran into my neck. I ask what are you using, he says a fly, he's got a seven foot rod with a spin reel and obviously sight snagging, only this time he got it in the tail. It quickly broke off. I said what pattern, some white one with wings he says. I said they're usually not hitting once they're upstream, it would be easy to floss them. Ya, they don't usually hit much now he says, missing my point. What would you call this new method of fly fishing, floss snagging, snag flossing, fly snagging, fly jerking or precision drift cast lifting? I mean, really there is a certain skill level required to guide a fly onto a fish 10 feet away from you, why don't we see this in competitions?
