Trout and their lairs

[Richard Olmstead]

I started out calling this thread "Trout and their lies" as in where they "lie" in the stream, but I thought it might create the wrong impression!
I tend not to take many pictures of fish anymore; after a while they all look the same. But, I love to see pictures of fish holding water. That's what captures my imagination. What fly would I use? Where will the fish be holding? Where would I make the cast? So, I wanted to start a thread that pairs pictures of a trout's lie with the fish caught there. I don't want to see generic fish pictures and stream pictures. Only pics of the fish that came from that lie. I'm sure you've got some; let's see 'em.

 

[Richard Olmstead]

Here's another. The lie is right where the two channels meet.

 

[Pink Nighty]

Love this idea!

The hold is just outside the seam. Swing down to it, big downstream mend as you reach the seam to get your fly into it. These live there.



Depending on the time of year, so do these.

 

[Matt B]

Same stream, same day.
I do this, too, Richard.

 

[Tom Butler]

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

Foam is home

 

[Matt B]

I knew there was one in the shade of those two rocks. Yep. And in the pool at the bottom of that water slide-cascade.

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

I think quite a few folks know this place and where they lay here.

 

[Richard Olmstead]

I love teasing fish out from under cut banks. Sometimes it is amazing how little they will move from under cover to take a fly. If the fly isn't ticking the grass above its head as it drifts by the fish won't take it.

Here's one from a stream in Idaho. Water flowing right to left; cutt was tucked under the bank about middle of the pic.



And one from a stream a little farther afield - southern Patagonia. Water flowing right to left; fish right where the grass over the cutbank dips down to the water. It was amazing how little flow and how big the fish were in this spring creek!

 

[Tom Butler]

Out workin' with my son learning to read water as a fly fisher would. He's a bass fisherman mostly.

 

[Canuck from Kansas]

Cheers

 

[Matt B]

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Cheers

Boy does that look refreshing. I want to fish up it and then swim down it.

 

[Zak]

 

[Canuck from Kansas]

And from the dry side





Cheers

 

[Matt B]

In the darker green, right below the log.

 

[Richard Olmstead]

On a river somewhere in the northern Rockies where it is legal to target Bullls.

 

[Dave Westburg]

On the inshore edge of this seam...

I caught this fish.

 

[Dave Westburg]

Swinging a size 12 hares ear soft hackle off this bank...

I caught this...

 

[Creatch’r]

This is a really cool thread. I might have some that qualify, but I should probably take more!

 

[swimmy]

Look just past the outlet and you see color change where the lake drops off.

Whenever the wind dies down, the fish will come up.