I really don't know where to start this thread, so I'll begin it here. Was playing around with swinging a wet fly on my local river. There's this one riffle I see from the highway as I'm coming & going that looks especially fishy to me.
So I devised a plan, take the Watermaster on a float, beach above the riffle and wade out to the inside of it and attempt to swing up some native red band rainbows.
Casting distance was relatively short which is a plus for me.
Gear was a 9.5' Redington CPS in 6 wt that I got for beach coho. Was running a 5 wt Outbound short full float to a 7' fast sink poly leader then a short 4' chunk of flourocarbon 8 lb to my fly.
My choice is a beautifuly executed Kaufman's coal car in classic Spey style on a Alex Jackson #7.
The casting was unpolished for sure but the sinking head simplified it to a chuck & duck overhead cast.
Now to the fishing itself, it played out as I'd imagined it. My 1st was too short & inside to be effective, but cast 2 hit it right. Thru a big upstream mend in at the top to sink everything then grabbed the line against the cork and let it swing thru. The jolt of the tug completely caught me by surprise, reload for #3, same result this time I was just slightly behind the fish it went airborne & spit it.
Finished up with 1 to hand, multiple hook ups and then lost, and a few more tugs
Pretty cool when a plan comes together.
c/22
So I devised a plan, take the Watermaster on a float, beach above the riffle and wade out to the inside of it and attempt to swing up some native red band rainbows.
Casting distance was relatively short which is a plus for me.
Gear was a 9.5' Redington CPS in 6 wt that I got for beach coho. Was running a 5 wt Outbound short full float to a 7' fast sink poly leader then a short 4' chunk of flourocarbon 8 lb to my fly.
My choice is a beautifuly executed Kaufman's coal car in classic Spey style on a Alex Jackson #7.
The casting was unpolished for sure but the sinking head simplified it to a chuck & duck overhead cast.
Now to the fishing itself, it played out as I'd imagined it. My 1st was too short & inside to be effective, but cast 2 hit it right. Thru a big upstream mend in at the top to sink everything then grabbed the line against the cork and let it swing thru. The jolt of the tug completely caught me by surprise, reload for #3, same result this time I was just slightly behind the fish it went airborne & spit it.
Finished up with 1 to hand, multiple hook ups and then lost, and a few more tugs
Pretty cool when a plan comes together.
c/22
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