"Todd" wrote in message
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On 03/26/2010 08:11 PM, Giles wrote:

The short answer: Pick it up and cast again.

The longer answer: "Steady or bursts" means.....what? "Fast or slow"
who and/or what? In any case, at the end of a drift, if there is no
fish on the line, you pick it up and cast again.

giles

Hi Giles,

At the end of my drift, my line is kind of far away from
me. I like to pull it across the current (I get a lot
of hits in the summer doing that) and pull it back along
the shore a ways before I shot it back out in front
(front side -- never directly in front) of me in the
rapids.

The longer the line stays in the water the better.

An, yes, I would not have lost my fly yesterday,
if I had just picked it up and shot it back out.
(Note to fish with my fly in his lip: I know
where you live and what you eat!)

-T

I would tend to agree with Wolfgang on the just pick it up and recast.
However, depending on the fly type nymph, woolly bugger, wet fly,
streamer... you might consider different retrrieves for these different
style flyz. I believe I read, not sure of the author: Quick, McNally,
Brooks, Dick... though Schwiebert rings a bell... but when this fisher used
a nymph he would employ an extremely slow retrieve by twisting the line over
and under the fingers of his left hand. He stated that it had the effect of
a nymph crawling upstream on the bed of of the stream.

A bugger could be done in similar fashion, but a wet fly or streamer might
be stripped in short or fast bursts. I'd try a combination of retrieves and
see what works for ya. I have tried the finger roll with nymphs, but I am
way too impatient to do it regularly.

Op