Fly Selection @ Member Day Fishing Contest

This past Saturday we held our annual one fly fishing contest out at Troublesome Creek with our members.  Some of the members had slow action, while the winner landed 10 trout in less than three hours.  It appears that fly selection was more critical this year, wondering if others felt the same way.  With the higher water level, and color of the stream, was it the bigger flashier flies that were tempting the trout?  Or was it the fact that the streamer type fly that won the contest was being stripped upstream, while other were being dead drifted in the current.  Interesting to get some feed back on what was the real factor in the difference between the number of fish that were landed-

 

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  • 6/30/2009 8:49 PM Frank Wilson wrote:
    Dean, website is really nice!!! Elise had a great time at the member day. I am currently on the San Juan River sight fishing 20 inch plus fish and trying to catch them on size 22 to 24 flys not to mention 6x tippet. It has been awesome.

    Frank
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