stillwater

[1fly]

Thanks for the new forum. I appreciate you putting it up and I hope to get a rousing bit of discussion regarding stillwaters. My first question would be to ask how others fish stillwaters.

A. Trolling buggers with sinking lines.
B. Floating line with indicator and nymphs. 'vertical' fishing.
C. Other

I'm most interested in "c'!!!

[LorenWilliams]

C! ;D This is gonna be good.

[Brown_Trout]

B & C

[1fly]

All right our first contestant! What is your "c"?

[frogge]

Hey,
I've had alot of unsuccessfull experience in stillwaters. Most successfull experience last wk in Utah. Guide suggested a crystal bugger on floating line. We cast out from shore and let them sink then stripped slowly in. He broke off a tiger trout I didn't get any hits in that location. Got to fish a stocked pond and the technique was very effective on stocked rainbows. I've seen a technique on tv in bc using an indicator and suspending either streamer or streamer/nymph combo and letting wind and wave action move the flies. I'm itching to try than. Toodles,Frogge.

[AaronJasper]

I will find the article it was on a UK site. They talked a lot about greased line and leader. techniques. The line Is the indicator. They also went into detail about how to put a slight bow in the line for even better strike detection. I don't think an indicator would be very effective to tell strikes in lake fishing. There would be too much slack in the line under the indicator. Greased line or leader is much better since the rig is straight and you are in more direct contact.

The other methods was a sinking line of various sink rates. They use 3 to 6 flies with long spacing in between. Once the find the depth the fish are at they really pound them.

If one thinks they are going to go to a lake and wing a streamer and a strike indicator out there the results will be minimal at best.

This is no different than fishing streams where tackle and techniques need to be adapted to all water situations. In my opinion which is based on research lakes can be tougher than streams because there are more variables involved.

[alanb_ct]

Most of my stillwater fly fishing experience has been in Maine, fishing for wild brook trout in smallish ponds with dry flies. I also had a little success there casting wooly buggers on sinking lines.

There is one other thing I would like to mention. One time, I was fishing a medium size pond in Connecticut from my canoe. There was a fellow there that was slowly trolling dry flies on the surface. He caught about 10 fish that way. I'm not sure if this is a common method, but that day, it really worked!

[LorenWilliams]

Actually Aaron, suspending a nymph or streamer under an indicator (or bung as they call them in the UK) can be deadly. Fun? No. But it does work well. Stillwater fish take much more positively than do river fish.

Today they wanted 3 buzzers fished static in the remnant scum lines over deep water just as Davy suggested. I bet they were no more than 2 feet down in spite of the bright sun, little wind and clear water with no bug activity in the 42-degree water.

[AaronJasper]

I was referring to comp rules. I would say greased line suspends them just the same.

[LorenWilliams]

We use dry dropper a good deal in competition. Some days you just cannot beat it.