How to Cycle Through Different Methods on a New River (67 of 67)
Video Transcript:
Maybe I couldn't get deep enough. I don't know. But nothing touched it. So what do you do next?
Well, I'm going to try a streamer. We're on water that we've never fished before.
I have no idea what's in here. I have no idea what these fish are eating. I don't even know what species are in here, whether they're browns or rainbows. I'm going to put on a streamer and try that. That's the next thing I tried.
Well, I had one little bump on the streamer. That didn't work. So what's next? Well, there's always something in your bag of tricks.
I'm going to try swinging a soft hackle. Got some small fish rising in the tail of the pool. Then I can probably get one to take a swung soft hackle. We will see. So far, I've been wrong.
There we go. Soft hackle.
Thank you, Mark.
Fat fish. They're not air fat.
Just goes to show you, on a new river, you've got to be versatile. You can't go in there with a game plan and expect it to work, you know. You just have to keep trying things and experimenting.
Soft hackle is not something I fish that often. Nymph didn't work. Dry fly didn't work that well. Streamer didn't work that well.
The soft hackle swung in the tail of this pool—yeah, they weren't monsters, but they were fish and they were fun.