"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.
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TL,
Tim
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