The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
The vast majority of trout fishing situations involve casts of less than 60 feet, usually far shorter. And when you're working a fish closer in, success often depends on your ability to make gentle, delicate, accurate presentations. For this reason, many experienced anglers consider Winston's WT rods to be the perfect choice for such fishing. With progressive tapers, they work nicely at close distances yet can make longer casts when needed. Proven on trout waters worldwide, these medium-action graphite rods are incredibly smooth, offer wonderful touch and feel, and the tips are soft enough to protect 6x and 7x tippets while playing large trout.
It has plenty of backbone and will throw a 3 WT line pretty far.
George Daniels showed me just how deep you can get with these kind of flies one day on Spring Creek, and I've taken to his methods.
George Daniels showed me just how deep you can get with these kind of flies one day on Spring Creek, and I've taken to his methods.
Would you mind sharing your/his methods? I know you can get a fly pretty darn deep with stack mends.
But, Eric, you've been known to sink a fly or two yourself.
Is this dismay on your part some kind of subterfuge for your own nefarious purposes?