fishin for trout in lakes
 

"Tim J." wrote in message
...

"snakefiddler" wrote...
yesterday my son and i went fishin at a local lake in blowin rock ,
(appropriately called trout lake). he fished with his spin rod, i with
my
fly rod. he had an artificial worm on his hook, which landed him his
first
trout. i, in spite of trying a few different flies, got nothing. my
question is this. in the absence of a hatch, when fishing for trout in
lakes, does one approach fly selection differently than when fishing
streams?

On our local lakes/ponds that hold trout, I've found the surface fishing
poor
except at dawn and dusk. During those times, I use the same types of dry
flies
as a stream, depending on the visible hatch. Subsurface, damselfly nymphs
and
wooly buggers usually produce a fish or two.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj



helpful stuff- thanks
snake

fishin for trout in lakes
 

"Tim J." wrote in message
...

"snakefiddler" wrote...
yesterday my son and i went fishin at a local lake in blowin rock ,
(appropriately called trout lake). he fished with his spin rod, i with
my
fly rod. he had an artificial worm on his hook, which landed him his
first
trout. i, in spite of trying a few different flies, got nothing. my
question is this. in the absence of a hatch, when fishing for trout in
lakes, does one approach fly selection differently than when fishing
streams?

On our local lakes/ponds that hold trout, I've found the surface fishing
poor
except at dawn and dusk. During those times, I use the same types of dry
flies
as a stream, depending on the visible hatch. Subsurface, damselfly nymphs
and
wooly buggers usually produce a fish or two.
--
TL,
Tim
------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj



helpful stuff- thanks
snake

fishin for trout in lakes
 

snake sez:
i'll be back out there because it is a nice, un-crowded place that my son
and i (since he spin casts) can fish together.

Then you may want to team-fish with him. Both of you use damsel fly and/or
dragon fly nympths. You with a sink tip and he with a bubble 1/2 to 2/3
full of water to make it sink. He can cast a country mile with his bubble
and get way out into deep water and you can shore fish. Since both of you
use the same fly your team-fishing would be testing the difference between
fishing close to shore vs. fishing out in deeper water. Which technique
works best? Try it and let us know!
Good luck!
John

fishin for trout in lakes
 

snake sez:
i'll be back out there because it is a nice, un-crowded place that my son
and i (since he spin casts) can fish together.

Then you may want to team-fish with him. Both of you use damsel fly and/or
dragon fly nympths. You with a sink tip and he with a bubble 1/2 to 2/3
full of water to make it sink. He can cast a country mile with his bubble
and get way out into deep water and you can shore fish. Since both of you
use the same fly your team-fishing would be testing the difference between
fishing close to shore vs. fishing out in deeper water. Which technique
works best? Try it and let us know!
Good luck!
John

fishin for trout in lakes
 

"John" wrote in message
...
snake sez:
i'll be back out there because it is a nice, un-crowded place that my
son
and i (since he spin casts) can fish together.

Then you may want to team-fish with him. Both of you use damsel fly
and/or
dragon fly nympths. You with a sink tip and he with a bubble 1/2 to 2/3
full of water to make it sink. He can cast a country mile with his bubble
and get way out into deep water and you can shore fish. Since both of you
use the same fly your team-fishing would be testing the difference between
fishing close to shore vs. fishing out in deeper water. Which technique
works best? Try it and let us know!
Good luck!
John


sounds like fun. the fact that he can cast so much further than i with his
spin rod may be the reason he got that trout.

snake

fishin for trout in lakes
 

snakefiddler wrote:

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And seriously, "snake," any chance of your doing an occasional snipping
when you reply?

yeah, ya know- i could have done a little snipping there- i'll give ya that
one. still, it really wasn't that big a deal. just don't read the ****, if
you don't want to.

I (and many people outside the U.S.) have relatively costly by-the-minute
dial-up access. Many stay on line only long enough to send messages in a
batch, download emails and NG messages in a batch, then read and write off
line. One or two posts quoting 100+ lines--the entirety of several
preceding posts--with the sole addition of ":)", or "good one", or the
equivalent, is understandable I suppose. Lots of them soon become a
costly annoyance. Do what you like, of course, but you might consider it.

JR

fishin for trout in lakes
 

snakefiddler wrote:

wrote in message

And seriously, "snake," any chance of your doing an occasional snipping
when you reply?

yeah, ya know- i could have done a little snipping there- i'll give ya that
one. still, it really wasn't that big a deal. just don't read the ****, if
you don't want to.

I (and many people outside the U.S.) have relatively costly by-the-minute
dial-up access. Many stay on line only long enough to send messages in a
batch, download emails and NG messages in a batch, then read and write off
line. One or two posts quoting 100+ lines--the entirety of several
preceding posts--with the sole addition of ":)", or "good one", or the
equivalent, is understandable I suppose. Lots of them soon become a
costly annoyance. Do what you like, of course, but you might consider it.

JR

fishin for trout in lakes
 

Frank Reid wrote:

The key to still water is getting the flies to where the fish are.

Damn, rw's right. That's way different from stream fishing.... g

JR

fishin for trout in lakes
 

Frank Reid wrote:

The key to still water is getting the flies to where the fish are.

Damn, rw's right. That's way different from stream fishing.... g

JR

fishin for trout in lakes
 

"JR" wrote in message ...
snakefiddler wrote:

wrote in message

SNIPPED
I (and many people outside the U.S.) have relatively costly by-the-minute
dial-up access. Many stay on line only long enough to send messages in a
batch, download emails and NG messages in a batch, then read and write off
line. One or two posts quoting 100+ lines--the entirety of several
preceding posts--with the sole addition of ":)", or "good one", or the
equivalent, is understandable I suppose. Lots of them soon become a
costly annoyance.
\

Do what you like, of course, but you might consider it.

i certainly will :-)
snake

JR