Streamer time is here

[Nymphmeister]

Yes, it's that magic time of the year when aggressive trout like to demolish your streamers. On my home river, the Housatonic, the streamer bite kicked into high gear in the past week and a half. October is usually a great month to toss a streamer anywhere there are browns, brookies, or fall-spawning rainbows. The CT DEP stocked the Housy this year with a White Sulfur/Irwin rainbow trout cross. These fish are Fall spawners, and are all decked out in spawning colors now. A nice brown I caught today was all colored up too, really pretty. I love October.

[LopatNympher]

There are a couple of really deep pools on the Bushkill. Although I've never really fished a streamer I'm might have to try some there tommorrow

[tailgrabber]

Hello neighbor, In November when our mountain creeks where at their lowest, right before we started getting all that rain again, I had great success with a clouser. I wasn't having to much luck with any of my other offerings. But the trout were chasing my fly 2 at a time. I've never seen the fish act like that before there, very aggressive.
The fly was chartruse and black tied with silver thread, not pretty at all. In fact the black was hair from my dog's tail. I would cast behind the fish and strip it back upstream with quick 2-3inch strips it drove them crazy. That lasted for about a week. Some heavy rains came and that put an end to that. Back to midges.[quote author=LopatNympher link=topic=3652.msg27525#msg27525 date=1254953343]
There are a couple of really deep pools on the Bushkill. Although I've never really fished a streamer I'm might have to try some there tommorrow
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[Castaline]

This winter I wanted to start practicing my spey casting on the local NJ river I live near by. So when the water is up a bit I head out there and I have been very surprised on the bonus of having a number of swipes and the occasion hookups I have got on a marabou streamer just swung with the occasional twitch. These are stocked fish and the water is cold! and the line is a floater fished very slowly this is a surprisingly good winter technique much more effective that I would have imagined.

[Mantis]

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[sholgate]

I am a huge steamer fan, especially buggers, but I rarely use them in the winter. Now you have me rethinking, or at least game to experiment. Maybe even tomorrow.

[buckbee]

fish 'em slow n deep.... think Barry White

[Mantis]

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[AaronJasper]

Mantis,

Your streamer fetish died out with all this nymphing

[FK]

A question on streamer rods, is eveyone using their Euro nymph rods?

Regards,
FK