any tips

[sammy]

Hello as ive stated before i am just into fly fishing and i went to the hockanum river and had no luck. I have been there five times with no catch to show for it and i have trout jumping right in front of my woolly bugger. I am trying to stay with it but its very frusterating and it seems everytime im just dissapointed could anyone maybe remeber back to the time they caught there first trout on a fly rod? i just bought a gloomis rod with saved up money from lawn mowing but there is nothing more that i want to do than to catch a fish on a fly rod. I live in wethersfield so i have the hockanum river close by. Could someone please share how they got there first trout and my rod is only 8 and one half foot long so ive heard it cant fish nymphs. Thanks u guys for hwlping im still waiting for my first trout. I just dont think luck is on my side with these fish. someone please help! thanks
-sam

[AaronJasper]

Funny story, I helped someone at the Gorge the other day that had the same problem. He did know know things like tandem rigging of flies and to use split shot. After a brief conversation, I rigged him up with two flies 18" apart using 5X flourocarbon, one number 1 split shot 15 inches about the first fly and an indicator about 4 feet above the weight, no sooner than than I showed him to tension cast he was into his first trout! I was excited for him since I remember when I was 6 and 7 and not doing as well as my grandpa. It was such a "stress reliever" when I finally found success! I hope he gets more in the near future. Hang in there and take the advice from here and you will get them!

[alanb_ct]

sammy:
Stay with it, we have all been there. Next time you go, try to fish a smaller fly in black, brown or olive. Cast it upstream and little and let it tunble with the current. At the end of the drift, let the line tighten up and give a few small strips. After the strips, raise your rod tip to bring the fly to the surface. This method of fishing may simulate the caddis rising to the surface that are likely in your stream.

Method 2 would be to fish a small bucktail streamer like the black-nosed dace in a size 10. Cast this fly to the tailouts of the pools and strip slowly. There should be a few willing fish there that will strike.

Good luck!

[SlowNDeep]

My first rods were 8 1/2 feet, I had no trouble catching fish using those rods, even with nymphs - once I learned to flyfish.

I spent lots of frustrating days learning to flyfish - lots of hooked trees, bottom, missing fish that took my dries, feeling takes fishing streamers with no fish there on the strike, then realizing that I was waiting for the wrong clues indicator nymphing. I finally learned to catch rising fish by going to Lake Mohigan and catching Sunfish on ants - I realized that I only need to tighten the line, not strike. I had been ripping the flies away from the fish as they tried to take it off the surface.

The best learning came watching others while I sat down to relieve my frustration.

If you're on a C+R section - watch others who are hooking up. Read some books, then re-read them after you go out and try some of the techniques you've read about. Take some classes if you can afford them. Make friends with other flyfishers by joining a local TU or other fly fishing organization in your area. Find a local shop with some guys who actually get out and fish once in a while, pick their brains whenever you can.

Pay attention to drift, drag, and bubbles. With the bubbles on top, slower than the bubbles down below.

[FLYDAD]

Sammy

Please don't make the mistake that i did? About 13 years ago I decidedd I wanted to fly fish so I bought a rod & reel and gave it a try. After a lot of trips to the river and not catching any fish I gave up. "BIG MISTAKE?" After about 10 year I decided to give it a try again only this time I took lessons & went to clinics put on by my local fly shop. That made all the difference in the world for me.I now can go to the river with some sort of confidence and my catch rate has improved greatly. Now looking back I am just pissed that I missed out on 10 years of fly fishing.

You are in the right place by being on this site. this is the best source on the internet for fihing info. you wont find people bitching back and forth about this guy did this and that guy did that. This site is all about how to catch fish. Most all of the lessons & clinics that I went to were put on by people from this site. Aaron is one of the best (IS THE BEST) fly fisherman I have ever have had the pleasure of fishing with.

Don't worry about the pole it will work just fine and beleive me it wont be your last.

[FK]

"Don't worry about the pole"

Does anyone know the difference between a "fishing pole" and a "fishing rod"???
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About $700.

Regards,
FK

[FLYDAD]

Yes FK I'm sorry i did mean to say ROD

[FK]

FLYDAD,

Just kidding,,,,,,,I know one guy who calls the $65 fly lines "string",,,,,cast some more "string" to reach the fish.

Regards,
FK

[sammy]

lol strings