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As the weather may be drying up and warming up, we have some unique top water hatches on the Yuba and other California Rivers plus egg laying insects on top of the water.
Dry flies can attract some large trout during these hatches.
The problem is that the fish have learned to stay just outside of the normal distance of one handed fly fishers. So they are out 60 to 70 feet past knee deep water in the slick zones.
Somedays, the fish are kamakazis and will hook themselves.
Other days you have the typical suck in the fly routine, and you have set the hook hard and quick to catch them. I find it very hard to do this at 60 to 70 feet.
How do you do this with a floating line at this distance? I posed this question last fall, and I would like to run it up the flag pole again.
I get the feeling from some Speyers if the fish don't hook themselves at that distance, forget it.
Any suggestions?
Dry flies can attract some large trout during these hatches.
The problem is that the fish have learned to stay just outside of the normal distance of one handed fly fishers. So they are out 60 to 70 feet past knee deep water in the slick zones.
Somedays, the fish are kamakazis and will hook themselves.
Other days you have the typical suck in the fly routine, and you have set the hook hard and quick to catch them. I find it very hard to do this at 60 to 70 feet.
How do you do this with a floating line at this distance? I posed this question last fall, and I would like to run it up the flag pole again.
I get the feeling from some Speyers if the fish don't hook themselves at that distance, forget it.
Any suggestions?