Trout Tutorial

[Driftless]

Bright sunny morning.

Late May.

No obvious hatches.

How do you fish this hole as a fly angler?

What do you use?

Is the angler pictured fishing the hole correctly?

Should you just bypass the sunny day and go home?

If you were a spin or worm angler how would you fish this hole?

Comment away.

No answer is wrong.

[JBMasterAngler]

I had the same issues today. As a spin angler, I move along to the riffles.

[mainbutter]

Pack up, go to a lake, fish rock piles for SMB or weedlines for pike

[delcecchi]

Bright sunny morning.

Late May.

No obvious hatches.

How do you fish this hole as a fly angler?

What do you use?

Is the angler pictured fishing the hole correctly?

Should you just bypass the sunny day and go home?

If you were a spin or worm angler how would you fish this hole?

Comment away.

No answer is wrong.

Of course some answers are wrong.

So, any tips?

[monstermoose78]

a nice big crawler and a hook and let the current take it down

[macgruber]

he's fine for the tail of the pool, but I think an army crawl up the left bank might be in order if dude wants to drift the meat of it...... stay low, stay hidden and make the first couple drifts count.....

on sunny days with no surface activity on small streams, I like to drop a nymph off of a little bigger dry rather than bring an indicator into the mix..... seems like the fish spook less- softer landing and whatnot...... tough to fish really deep water with that setup but i've had good luck with it..... sometimes you'll find a hog that's looking up and wants a big dry too....... limit or eliminate false casts and fish upstream as this gent is doing......

[shale]

I'd get 20-30 feet upstream from the hole and drift a weightless crawler into the head and through the hole. Gradually feeding line as the current takes it down and through the hole.