[Interview starts at 46:26]
My visitor today is Tone Pringle of Faceless Fly Fishing, and the subject is small-stream fly fishing, especially in the Rocky Mountains. Tone has some terrific pointers on fishing dries, dry/dropper combinations, and banners, and the distinctions in between the various types of trout in little streams. She likewise provides some terrific pointers on preventing encounters with bears, something that can be a concern when specific locations of the Rockies when you escape the roadway.
In the Fly Box, we have some seasonally suitable concerns and some great pointers from listeners, consisting of:
- 4 great pointers from a listener on keeping connecting products.
- When do you utilize a calling loop, and when do you utilize the basic noodle approach rather?
- How do I prevent the many little steelhead parr on my regional river?
- Why did I miss out on 20 fish in a row when fishing a dry fly throughout a caddis hatch?
- A listener differs with the suggestions of utilizing much heavier tippets to play fish rapidly.
- Do trout get complete and not increase when there is an over-abundance of bugs?
- Why can I capture fish on dries and not on nymphs?
- A listener asks my ideas on nymphs with a bobber vs. a dry/dropper rig.
- A listener tore a little piece of the jaw off a trout due to the fact that he forgot to pinch his barb. He would like to know if that hole in the trout’s jaw is a death sentence.
- How should I ready as much as swing flies for smallmouth bass?
- How can I obstruct a hatch? What functions should I search for if I wish to attempt to wait on the bank for a hatch to appear?
- Should I prevent putting floatant on the bodies of foam flies?
