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Before you make that first cast, look at the water and find zones of change in the texture of the surface. Use those polarized glasses and look "into" the water and observe the differences in the bottom configuration. Take a second to observe where the shadows and the sun are in relation to you. Look for areas of transition in any water that trout exist and you will locate them. They love change. Locate a moving foam line in a river and find a "softer" piece of water adjacent to it, bingo! Trout city. Find a sandy bottom along the inside bend of a rivers turn, look a little deeper and examine the gravel or rock lining this edge. Set up your nymphs drift to follow this line and get ready for a take. A low hanging sun behind the brush has cast a definitive shadow line across a slow moving stretch of river. Fish the edge of this shadow, it is a transition zone, Troutzilla likes this area. |
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You are kicking around in a float tube on a stillwater. You see a wind line on the waters surface that seems to hang in one area of the lake. Fish the edge of the wind line and hang on! The edge of weed beds, drop-offs along the shoreline, the inlet area of a stream or creek, all are zones of transition. Recognizing these areas will catch you more fish. Look for them before you make that first cast! Look for the transition zones close to you and fish these first. This way you will not line, or spook fish in the entire pool or run. Be the fly...Tom Loe |
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