A buddy and I hit a local river in a first attempt to hook into some chum. We used various green, black, pink etc flies...most with trailing hooks. We were swinging using doublehand rods....7wts.
I had no idea what to do so basically fished the same way I would for steelhead. I first fished deep, then middle, then finally went light, all with no luck. I tried small strips......nothing.
We saw them EVERYWHERE! They damn near swam between our legs....totally ignoring both us and our flies.
Still....AWESOME day. Water level was perfect, light mist in the morning and flocks of geese flying overhead.....perfect! (Other than not getting a single grab after six hours of wading.
Any advice is welcome. Also I was thinking of bringing a single hand rod next time instead.....What weight rod? I was a little worried my 7 weight doublehander wasn't enough as several of the chum swimming by were fairly large and that's the heaviest spey rod I have. I've got ALL the singlehand weights though : ).
Thanks,
Mark
I had no idea what to do so basically fished the same way I would for steelhead. I first fished deep, then middle, then finally went light, all with no luck. I tried small strips......nothing.
We saw them EVERYWHERE! They damn near swam between our legs....totally ignoring both us and our flies.
Still....AWESOME day. Water level was perfect, light mist in the morning and flocks of geese flying overhead.....perfect! (Other than not getting a single grab after six hours of wading.
Any advice is welcome. Also I was thinking of bringing a single hand rod next time instead.....What weight rod? I was a little worried my 7 weight doublehander wasn't enough as several of the chum swimming by were fairly large and that's the heaviest spey rod I have. I've got ALL the singlehand weights though : ).
Thanks,
Mark