Streamers are more fun than fishing dry flies
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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I'd have to agree. Other than dries in alpine lakes!
So true - when that happens I think that there is just nothing better! Then when I am getting slammed when streamer fishing, I scream - THERE IS JUST NOTHING MORE FUN!! Lol
@@FlyFishDan facts!
If I came up on that piece of water such that it is, I’d definitely fish streamers. But I prefer dry fly when I can and it’s not even close. Most of my most memorable fish/days are on dries, but there’s some on streamers. It’s a beautiful thing in fly fishing, when you really figure out what you love!
Was streamer fishing in the St vrain in my hometown and these bass were biting but the large trout weren’t. It’s a nice experience but hopefully I’ll get some large trout in the cooler months. Fish on!
Bass are super fun too and FISH-ON indeed!
A hard grab on a tight line swing…a big nose poking up and sucking in a dry fly…tough to choose. I’ll take either one any time.
I'm with ya there for sure
You make it look so easy. Tried for some brown trout yesterday. Nice overcast day, water was great. Threw a balanced leech and a smaller wooly bugger. Nothing. Tried a couple small nymphs. Nothing. Tried a dry fly, smacked a couple of really small bass. I didn’t get skunked at least lol. Trout are a bit tricky. Maybe I’ll have more luck in the fall.
You didn't get skunked! Love that, I say that often to my fishing buddies :))
LOVE the “Big Pull” more than most, but it’s hard to beat the dry fly eat…..
When I am dry fly fishing and see the big eats, I think the same...then when I am fishing streamers and fish are slamming the fly, I say to myself that there is just nothing better. :))
They're both equally addictive.
Watching a big trout spot your dry, alter position then slowly ascend and quietly sip it in has a satisfaction that is hard to equal but that massive wallop of a big fish suddenly intercepting your streamer in a deep pot of dark turbulent water is a different sort of thrill. Both are amazing
Well said!
@@FlyFishDan I think the only conclusion I can come to is that it's great being a fly fisher, we have all these weapons in our arsenal and the thrills we can get are unbeatable. I've been fishing since I was old enough to walk and the fly is my drug of choice.
Which reminds me I bought an unused 10' Hardy Elite #7 yesterday, it's a thing of beauty and wasn't bought as a collectors piece! Time to hunt autumn silver
Your vocabulary in spots is equivalent to myself….. I love it! Haha 🤪
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Streamer and spey fishing is by far the best!
That tug is certainly the drug!
Combine the freight train slam of a swung fly with a crashing eat of a dry and you have skating flies for steelhead. I have caught bull trout in the big "S" river on a floating line with a swung baitfish pattern and always wondered if it would work for rainbows.
Now that, would be friggin cool. Something I have yet to experience myself!
It should. Mouse patterns work!
Guilty pleasures, lol. So under practiced here in Scotland but our native brownies and their silver sea-going cousins the seatrout go daft for big streamers, especially in heavy water or dusk conditions. I realised pretty young that spate conditions didn't mean I had to put the fly rod down, I just had to adapt my approach to suit. It was on a tributary of the Teviot, which is a tributary of the Tweed, and I was 11 iirc, it rained hugely the first night there and the river rose, high and muddy the next morning but falling, as soon as it was fishable I decided to try a reservoir outfit with a sinking linr and a big orange streamer, I caught a ridiculous number of good-sized trout pretty much straight away. Instant convert.
Good stuff, thanks for sharing! Love that you are watching from Scotland!!
@@FlyFishDan I'm just back from the river that I think of as the spiritual home of fly fishing, the Spey. It's changed a lot, climate change has had a huge impact on it in the decades since I last fished there, sad to see the damage but still a cracking bit of water despite that.
I landed a 3 1/2 lb brown on a # 20 Adams on 6x tippet. He came out of the deep to take that fly. Nothing will ever convince me that streamers are better.
I landed a 15 pound cutthroat trout on a micro streamer on 2x tippet casting a 6wt fly rod to a cruising giant picking off bait fish at the surface. He turned to my fly and just blasted it and it was game on from there. So good!
As if exctracting a size 14 dry fly from your person isn't painful enough! You sir, have far to much joy in the sport! Its UA-cam, my envy is warranted! If ya ever get to western Montana let me know, you can buy me a beer! Tight lines amigo
Good stuff - Deal :))
Beautiful fish! 👍🏾👏🏽
Thanks!
Pretty much solves that debate!
“He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.”
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Most important... NICE tank rainbow - WOW, FFD. What a subjective title. Streamers are a pain to cast, relative to dries and nymphs - so nope there. But the slams are super fun for sure, although for me personally watching a dry eat is unbeatable. Curious... with that bigger water, why not bring a Spey to swing those beefy presentations? Too hawt here to fish (for the trout, not me). ☮ from North Idaho.
Thanks justal! For me, today...it boils down to confidence...I've yet to find it on the trout spey.
@@FlyFishDan I was like that with nymphing (years ago) and spent an entire season with nothing but an indicator and two nymphs on my 5wt (still fished dries on the 4wt during the summer months of course...). Fixed my confidence issue and put me on the path I wanted to be. Still half the fly-guy you are 🙃
Awesome, good job! What reel is that?
That is my Ross Colorado click and pawl. Great reel
@@FlyFishDan Ah, ya...should have recognized it, those things are beautiful. I'm currently using the orvis battenkill (the newer/cheaper one)....one of these days!
Nothing wrong with the Battenkill...I have about 15 of those OG reels, love them!
Must have been there in late June with temps of 98.
This was just last week - I didn't start fishing until about 6:30pm so it cooled off from the 100's
What line were you using Dan ? I just started streamer fishing and starting out with a sink tip. Definitely an adjustment to dry fly fishing for sure ?
I am using Cortland's Finesse Trout II - it's a great all-purpose fly line. They do have a streamer specific line, just has a massive shooting head (works great for streamers, but that's about it). Check out my website (fishonrods.com), I have a coupon code if you buy direct from Cortland. Cheers!
@@FlyFishDan Awesome Thanks Dan I will give it a look . I bought some Airflow Streamer Max with a short head but it still sinks a bit much quicker than I like for shallower water . I want a bit slower sink and I can do that will split shot on a floating line I assume . Thanks for the info Cheers
I was just going to ask you whether in your opinion it's worth investing in a nice reel on your 3wt setup (as many state they just hand line everything with a 3wt), then you took that rainbow to the reel and I decided it probably is :)
I have the ol' Ross Colorado click and pawl on my 3wt, great reel for the price
I have a hard time casting that sculpzilla, even on my 5wt rods. I'm getting better, but it is not pretty.
@@grob25 water load - the best way to chuck these heavy streamers :))
No sir drys all
Day!
Dries are a blast...but can you really beat the full-on freight train tug on the streamers?? Hard to beat!
But a mouse fly tho is the most fun when applicable
Yeah...I can probably get behind that. Mouse eats...well, they are just next level, like on another planet type of thing
@@FlyFishDan try it in place of that streamer at dusk or even night you’ll be surprised especially with those browns most of the big ones are nocturnal anyway
@@GabeMorath I’m gonna give it a go - you here in WA or OR?
@@FlyFishDan from CO but go to school at OR st made the pilgrimage out to that river had success at late dusk w a mouse. Move it hard almost like a popper try to get it to push water. And if you get hit pause it because they’ll often stun the fly first and try circle back to it. But don’t get discouraged you miss ALOT mousing just the nature of the beast
Not true but to each their own
I was having WAY more fun than the three young guys that were near me fishing dry flies - they were watching me reel in all the fish!