flyBones

Great day cody! it was fun

want to do it again tomorrow?

question for those of you who frequent the forks a lot... is access from the park the only way to get up to the falls? it's a long-@$$ trek

didn't like the hike so much last time i went although fishing was excellent

is the quarry road off limits? and i'm guessing no parking along cataract road?

Flybones - orvis has some good videos. I went and watch the whole video that they had on the site before I actually got my first outfit. I was going to grab their product for my first outfit but I wasn't going to blow my money if I didn't like the sport. It is on my next wish list of purchases in the future though.

don't need much to start fly fishing... as like anything else you just accumulate stuff

started with 1 purchase off of kijiji for 2 rods and a reel for 300 bucks

2 years later i'm 4 rods & 4 reels in, with a scary amount of money spent... bit of a madness really

Great post by Shawarma.

When i started fishing, i was exactly the same thing.  WOuld spend hours and not get anything.

Highly recommended to read up and watch videos on reading water.  For any specific section of water, there's going to be areas worth spending time on and areas that are not.  It's all about being seeing what areas are likely to catch fish, putting some casts in there, and then moving on.

orvis has a good video series covering the basics

http://howtoflyfish....m/video-lessons

Remember that over millions of years of conditioning, predatory fish like to live in places where they have access to food but are protected.  That means the perfect spots are slow water that they can stay in which gives them protection, but also close to fast water where food are passing by.

Thus slow water beside fast water = seams.  Also pocket water behind large boulders, or the seams created by the slow water behind boulders as they meet the fast water flowing by.  Water under trees and log jams.  Anything that looks like you as a fish can hide in but still dart in and out to get food is perfect.

Lastly, i'm probably nymphing 80 percent of the time.  I'm never fishing at the time it seems that fish seem to be rising.  IF you don't see surface activity, you'd be practicing casting dry flies all day.  Fish eat subsurface 95 % of the time.  Use flies are that going to the bottom.  Use classic nymphs like pheasant tails, copper johns, hare's ears, prince, etc.  Get them down to the bottom.  Get yourself some smaller split shot.  Easier to play around w/ weight that way.  Keep indicator, if you are using one, 1.5-2x depth of water.  When you are starting off nymphing, indicator helps cause it gives you a good visual on whether or not drag is happening.

give it some time and you'll hit fish. the more you get out, the more you'll learn.  The challenge is the fun of it!

If you are ever interested in hitting some water that will for sure catch you some fish, PM me!

lots of access points

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