What to do with my retrieve?

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

"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

On 03/27/2010 05:53 AM, Mark Bowen wrote:

I would tend to agree with Wolfgang on the just pick it up and recast.

Wolfgang's post never showed up on my news server. :-(

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.

I have never tried this or even thought of it. Thank you!

"Todd" wrote in message
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On 03/27/2010 05:53 AM, Mark Bowen wrote:

I would tend to agree with Wolfgang on the just pick it up and recast.

Wolfgang's post never showed up on my news server. :-(

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.

I have never tried this or even thought of it. Thank you!

Giles is Wolfgang and vice versa

HTH

Op

On 03/27/2010 07:21 PM, Mark Bowen wrote:
wrote in message
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On 03/27/2010 05:53 AM, Mark Bowen wrote:

I would tend to agree with Wolfgang on the just pick it up and recast.

Wolfgang's post never showed up on my news server. :-(

Giles is Wolfgang and vice versa

Giles post did show up.

Just picking it up and recasting it ruins all the fun
of having a trout follow your retrieve. Looking down
the mouth of a trout before he strikes is great fun!

-T

On Mar 26, 10:38*pm, Todd wrote:


Hi Giles,

Hi Todd,

At the end of my drift, my line is kind of far away from
me.

Well, the bit that's attached to the leader might be.....I wouldn't
know. But the part that's attached to the reel should be pretty
close. Otherwise you're never going to catch any fish at all.

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.

Hm.....

O.k., then I'd suggest that you pull it across the current and pull it
back along the shore a ways before shotting it back out in front
(front side -- never directly in front) of you in the rapids.

The longer the line stays in the water the better.

Two minutes? Six days?

An, yes, I would not have lost my fly yesterday,
if I had just picked it up and shot it back out.

Nothing that happened to you yesterday (or at any other time, for that
matter) as a result of something you did would likely have
happened.....or, at least not in just that way and at that precise
time.....if you had done something else.

Madness lies down that path. But then that's less consequential for
some folks than for others,

(Note to fish with my fly in his lip: I know
where you live and what you eat!)

-T

You've got a real peculiar way about you, Todd. I like that. It's
refreshing.....in small and infrequent doses.

g.

On 03/28/2010 07:03 PM, Giles wrote:

You've got a real peculiar way about you, Todd. I like that. It's
refreshing.....in small and infrequent doses.

Did you just write me an entire letter without
actually saying a single thing? Wow! By any chance,
are you a, well, "politician"? "Congressman" maybe?

No offense intended. If you take offense, I
prefer to be called a "Nitwit". It is fun
to say and has a nice ring. :-)

-T