pfc_ivan

Alright, very good! Thanks so much for help guys, will give it a try

Yes. fish it like you're fishing beads or roe. In fact, when I go centerpin fishing, I always go with a bugger first. it's kind of a reaction bait.

But this method probably isn't the most effective in clear shallow rapids. Is it possible to just put a fly with a float about 4 feet above it or so and just drift downstream without any splitshots? That way the fly would be floating on the top, but the float might be too far away to spook the fish?

2 different methods.

Of course you can use flies with your centerpin+float rod. I still use flies when I float fish. I use egg pattern flies, stone flies, wooly buggers.

I use fly gear when fishing rapids, shallow clear water. I usually position down stream from the fish.

Centerpin, can give you longer drifts which I prefer on deeper and green water.

When you use egg pattern flies, stone flies, woolly buggers do you still put splitshots between float & fly, or you have no splitshots and the fly floats on the water? Whenever I think of fly fishing, I imagine the fly floating, but considering I am a newbie at this, maybe its even OK that the fly is submerged in water just like bead/roe is. 

If you have no bobber or split shot it will no doubt be hard to cast on the c/p. That's the beauty of fly fishing, the weight of the line enables you to load the rod and cast virtually weightless flies.

 

The other option for your setup would be bottom bouncing with some shot on the line.

Thank you.

Hello All, thank you for your quick replies. 

If the fly fishing technique is the only effective way to fly fish - I guess I will learn it. I am not entirely married to this technique however, and if there could be an effective technique with using a centrepin+float+fly at the end of the line, I would much rather fish like that.

But Huronfly mentioned above that the bobber can spook the fish easily, and I really need something on that line so that I would be able to properly cast with a centrepin setup. I dont necessarily need an indicator as I could just watch the fly go downstream and visually notice if the fish takes it, but I dont know how to cast with centrepin when the only weight I have on the line is a fly... Is it possible?