How to get skunked (58 of 59)
Originally, this video was supposed to be about what to do when you find a rising fish and it doesn’t take your fly. But fish don’t always cooperate. Watch as Tom goes through his bag of tricks on a wonderful stream in Chile and still comes up fishless. Haven’t we all been there?
Video Transcript:
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fly. Maybe I need a bigger dry fly to bring up these fish and I'm gonna hang a
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nymph off it. So I'm gonna fish a dry dropper. My strategy here is to start with
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a fairly small nymph, a little beethead pheasant tail. And then if all else fails,
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I'm going to our big clunkin' heavy nymphs. All right, plan D. The little nymph
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didn't work. Now I'm putting on a big heavy blowtorch. See if that helps. I have
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exhausted all of my bag of tricks and have not caught a fit. As a last resort,
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we have to leave. I'm going to put on a woolly bugger, a black woolly bugger, and
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strip it through this pool and hopefully I can at least catch a fish. The woolly
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bugger is often the fly of last resort. All right, that's it. It's time to go and
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I have been totally skunked. You know, people think that because I've fished a long
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time and I know a little bit about fly fishing that I never get skunked, and it's
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not true. I get skunked all the time. Am I upset? Yeah, a little bit.
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You know, I wanted to catch your fish. But tomorrow's another day and I hope it's
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a better day for me.