Karl-Hugo Weesberg wrote:

There are not too many flies in the water, so it's difficult to fish them.

Tell me about it...

So how can I fish flies?

What you're asking is not entirely clear, or clear at all for that
matter, but we will not let that deter us from helping you.

If what you're asking is what flies you should fish, and how, when you
don't see any flies on the water (i.e., when there's no hatch, nothing to
imitate), one answer is that you might want to cover the water completely
with an impressionistic "searching pattern" rather than a fly that
imitates a specific insect.

There are several ways to do this. The most common way to search with
these flies is to cast a short line and try to dead drift your fly for
as long a drift as possible, then increase the length of your cast a few
feet, drift again, then increase the length again another few feet, etc.,
until you reach the distance limit of your casting ability, at which point
you step a couple of steps upstream (if fishing dries) or downstream (if
fishing wets).

When fishing wet flies and nymphs, if you're getting no strikes after a
time, be sure (or as we're given to saying on roff, be damn sure) to
adjust the depth at which you're fishing. It also doesn't hurt when
fishing soft hackles or other wets/nymphs to let the fly continue to
swing downstream even after the drag-free ("dead drift") portion of your
cast.

Good wet flies/nymphs for this include the pheasant tail nymph, the gold
ribbed hare's ear and traditional soft hackle flies in various colors.
Dries might include the adams, royal coachman, and stimulator.

JR
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