Picture: Dom Swentosky/Troubitten
When trout decline a fly, do they do so since the drift isn’t right, or since it wasn’t within their window?
That’s the concern Dom Swentosky attempts to respond to in this recent post over at Troutbitten, and it’s a great idea workout.
I have actually copied a little Dom’s post listed below to provide you a taste of simply how he tackles this issue. You can check out the whole posthere
” Think of a trout holding on the within, back edge of a reasonably paced joint that moves around an exposed stone. Now envision a Hendrickson hatch that is strong enough and lasts enough time so trout throughout the river know the susceptible duns and all set to catch them. The trout keeping in our best boulder-seam may have a window of simply six-inches, from where the existing run into the rock to a half-foot downstream. And if the trout has its nose additional near to the origins of that joint– really near the stone, then 6 inches has to do with all it gets, as the existing slides around the rock. A trout in this position and in this frame of mind isn’t trying to find a dead drift. It’s trying to find a Hendrickson to go into that little window. And when it does, our trout obstructs the fly, (practically) despite the drift quality.
” This trout is selective about the pattern, as it’s trying to find Hendrickson duns, however it is not selective about the drift, just since the window is so little. Our trout is trying to find a fly in a position. It does not have time or area to examine the drift. So you may extremely well drag and move the fly through this selective trout’s window and score the fish of the day.”
