Red deer river today

[davesilva]

So I decided to hit the red deer river today on my day off, started fishing with a indicator and a San Juan worm under just because I've heard it's a good fly for whites that didn't work kept working my way down stream and nothing

So I decided to switch to a doc spratley and head back to where I started up stream on the deep pools and bam landed a goldeye after a bit more casting lost my fly to a fly eating tree! So switched over to a pheasant tail nymph and landed a nice white fish holy crap do they ever fight!

Kept working my way down stream with my indicator nymph rig and I had a gold eye attack my indicator full on flying out of the water! That was really neat so I switched right to a terrestrial dry fly (Chernobyl ant) and bam the goldeye came flying out attacking my dry I think I tried to set the hook to quick and missed him so I gave it another try and missed again trying to set the hook too quick third time the goldeye attacks the dry again I hesitate a bit and set the hook and bam goldeye on the dry!

Absolutely amazing I'm new to fly fishing this was an amzing day for me

I leanred that when the indicator stops or sinks set the hook I missed 2 other fish because of me being hessiaant!
Buyt I found with drys to wait 2 seconds the set the hook does this always work for fish that way for drys?

[davesilva]

Also has this ever happened to any of you guys with trout?
(Attacking the indicator)

And I'm wondering if a trout would repeatedly attack the same dry fly over and over

[davesilva]

Originally Posted by davesilva

So I decided to hit the red deer river today on my day off, started fishing with a indicator and a San Juan worm under just because I've heard it's a good fly for whites that didn't work kept working my way down stream and nothing

So I decided to switch to a doc spratley and head back to where I started up stream on the deep pools and bam landed a goldeye after a bit more casting lost my fly to a fly eating tree! So switched over to a pheasant tail nymph and landed a nice white fish holy crap do they ever fight!

Kept working my way down stream with my indicator nymph rig and I had a gold eye attack my indicator full on flying out of the water! That was really neat so I switched right to a terrestrial dry fly (Chernobyl ant) and bam the goldeye came flying out attacking my dry I think I tried to set the hook to quick and missed him so I gave it another try and missed again trying to set the hook too quick third time the goldeye attacks the dry again I hesitate a bit and set the hook and bam goldeye on the dry!

Absolutely amazing I'm new to fly fishing this was an amzing day for me

I leanred that when the indicator stops or sinks set the hook I missed 2 other fish because of me being hessiaant!
Buyt I found with drys to wait 2 seconds the set the hook does this always work for fish that way for drys?

[osprey]

Sounds like you had a great day! Sometimes fish will swirl a fly on the surface to sink it and then eat it. Hesitation works well in this case. If you see the fish actually eat the fly it's best to wait for it to be on the way down as the angle for striking the hook is much better then. This pause is hard to learn and remember especially if you've been nymphing and have the hair trigger reflexes needed for successful hookups. Of course, if you pause too long the fish spits out the fly...
All part of the fun of fly fishing.

[fish gunner]

Congrats on being able to adapt to the conditions and bring some fish to hand small steps with rewarding results. Welcome to the quiet addiction

[3blade]

Originally Posted by davesilva

Also has this ever happened to any of you guys with trout?
(Attacking the indicator)

And I'm wondering if a trout would repeatedly attack the same dry fly over and over

Yes and yes. Ive learned to carry large orange body foam flys at all times. There is one high mountain brook trout lake where that's all they will eat. No idea why, never seen any bug like it up there.

[spinN'flyfish]

Nice job, im sure a hopper dropper would catch whites and goldeyes all day long. furtherdownstream of dickson dam?

[Alberta Bigbore]

Nice fish, congrats!