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All Simply simply about FishingFly Fishing - In Search of the Chase
by:
Richard Chapo
With fly fishing, sometimes it is all simply about the chase. Here’s a day trip that looked unfruitful, but turned out alright in the end.
Colorado Fly Fishing
We put the raft in on a warm morning in Sept. without a cloud in sight. My expectations were not high, since a warm sunny day tends to put the fish down, at least on this stretch of the Colorado. Once
the fish aren’t rising, I go straight for bicycle streamers; there is nothing much exciting than a big pissed off brown chasing your streamer off the bank in shallow fast moving water. Dredging the bottom with a nymph simply doesn’t do it for me. If I break out a nymph’n rig, I must have exhausted all different options.
The 1st quarter mile of water put a bleak outlook on the remaining 9 home of watercourse
ahead of us, not a single chase through several of the higher quality water on this stretch!! My invited guest on board had no experience throwing a heavy awkward bicycle streamer rig, and was fairly discouraged after nearly throwing his shoulder out with only a handful of well-placed casts. I always talk of the exciting chases, but now; he must think I am full of it. I now cognize the frustration that guides must endure patch look miles of quality water go by without a singe well placed or all untouched. “There was probably a good fish it that pocket we simply passed”, came out of my mouth far too many a times than I care to recall.
Simply simply about 3 miles into our float, which is exactly what it had become, a look float, the weather began to change. Here came the clouds, an encouraging sign, of course unless the wind comes with it. Here came the wind, and next thing you know, our beautiful look float turned into a back athletics battle to support the boat heading downstream. Luckily, this did not last long, but the rain did begin to fall.
Inside
a few minuets after the rain subsided, the mayflies were swarming and the fish were rising. Were eddied out in several prime spots and began to catch fish in the moving
foam. Simply simply about any well-placed cast was rewarded. Time went by unnoticed, until suddenly I realize that we had only traveled half way to our take out and much than half of the day was gone. Pushing through the slack water and blow the moving water with the streamers was now becoming really productive. Finally, I could prove to my guest how exciting the chase could be. It seems that every different cast create
an aggressive brown, either territorial or simply plain hungry.
We landed several good fish patch powering through the final stretch, incoming at last light. A turn in the weather sure can turn on the fish and bring on the chase.
Rick Chapo is with Nomad Writing Journals - makers of fly fishing journals for fly fishing trips and fly fishing vacations. Great gifts for him or gifts for her.
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