I have been to The East Carson twice in the previous months(amazing, if you haven't been) which had been my first dry fly fishing that made sense. Things clicked. I caught many fish, and haven't really been the same since. Dry Fly Fever, anyone...
So as I stepped into the creek yesterday, I decided to try a different approach. I spent the day "on top" and had a lot of fun. At access 5, hooked several 3-7" fish on size 18 caddis and Adams. Around noon, a couple nice hatch clouds came off. Mayflies, black/white bodies, size 20ish. Mosquito pattern drew a few strikes.
As I was returning, I noticed some movement and was able to observe a family of 7 otters, mostly unaware of my presence. Relocated to the bridge. Fished just above the bridge, missed a couple strikes then finally brought a feisty 9" rainbow to hand after a few excited leaps from the water. A victim to an Adams. Did my paperwork and called it a day.
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Nice! I did some dry fly work on access 5 about this time last year. I was basically setting the hook any time I saw splashes at the surface near my line. Those sz 20 dries are impossible to see!!!!
Ty- On those smaller dries I sometimes like to fish them behind a bigger dry--say a stimulator or a larger parachute adams--kind of acts like an indicator. I do this all the time when I'm fishing the Trico hatch on the EC, size 22s
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Been to the east carson 3 times in the last month myself. I must say one of those days quite possibly was the best single day of dry fly fishing I have ever had ! So if you didn't go you missed it because it has substantially slowed with the current conditions. I was also considering the approach of fishing putah like any other trout river. I really think that I have gotten into the habit of fishing putah in the way that has over the years become "go to" way of doing things there, Hell slingin all that weight and those big ol thingamabobbers isn't even real fly fishing. Dry fly fishing is what the game is all about.
-- Edited by shon42073 on Wednesday 20th of October 2010 06:08:04 PM
Ty- On those smaller dries I sometimes like to fish them behind a bigger dry--say a stimulator or a larger parachute adams--kind of acts like an indicator. I do this all the time when I'm fishing the Trico hatch on the EC, size 22s
I've read about rigging up like that but never done it yet. Good idea.
The "double dry" is pretty cool. I fished with a guy who turned me onto it. You seem to need a pretty long(3 feet-ish) piece of tippit separating them to fight the drag each one can put on the other.
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"There is no place I fit in so well as a stream...Fishing ties me into the world of water and animals it contains, into mystery and something so primitive and valuable inside me."---Seth Norman
! So if you didn't go you missed it because it has substantially slowed with the current conditions. I was also considering the approach of fishing putah like any other trout river. I really think that I have gotten into the habit of fishing putah in the way that has over the years become "go to" way of doing things there, Hell slingin all that weight and those big ol thingamabobbers isn't even real fly fishing. Dry fly fishing is what the game is all about.
