I fished the creek for a few hours in the evening. The birds were going crazy above the water eating some type of bug, but it was too hard to tell what kind with all the wind. The wind was howling, making it hard to get a good drift, so I switched to an olive woolly bugger. I hooked five, but only landed three of those, one of which was a really nice fish.
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The bugger was a #10. I cast across the current and let the fly swing down and across. At the end of the drift I let it hang in the current. While twitching my rod tip periodically, I retrieve the fly slowly. The takes are obvious. There's nothing about subtle about it. As far as spots to fish, I just fish the holes that I know hold fish. The other day the wind made it nearly impossible to fish a nymph and indicator set up effectively, so I switched over.
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"Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught."
