Does slowly cruising down a river and catching plenty of fish along the way sound like it’s got the makings of the perfect fly fishing trip? JONATHAN BOULTON says it does.
And the fight. We have all caught fish that jump spectacularly, but some dorado I have hooked have spent more time airborne than underwater during the fight. I also love the sheer diversity in the way they hunt, from strength in numbers, their pack mentality, literally driving baitfish to throw themselves onto the mud banks to avoid the unfolding carnage, and then to solitary fish cleverly stationed at strategic spots like tributary mouths, converging currents, a colour line or an underwater drop-off. Their favourite is on the front end of a piece of structure in the current: a log, a boulder or a sapling growing out of the water. This is when one has to throw caution to the wind and cast across and perilously close to the structure, the current will swing the fly and you will have to time the retrieve so that the fly passes just over the face of the structure. Not close enough and the presentation will not elicit a strike. Get it wrong and the fly swings and snags on the structure. Tricky stuff indeed.
この記事は The Complete Fly Fisherman の February/March 2019 版に掲載されています。
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7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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