OHIO RIVER CATFISH ACTION !

Written by nlcatfish


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Fly Fishing with Streamers

Written by Cameron Larsen


Fly fishing streamers is often over looked by fly anglers, especially trout anglers. Streamers is a category of flies fly fisherman have given to loosely mean food other than insects. Generally, being smaller fish, it could also be crayfish, leeches, and crustaceans. Bass and salt water anglers, are more familiar withrepparttar theory that big fish eat littler fish. However, as our sport is dominated by trout anglers we think insect first and many times that is as far as our thought process goes. However, big fish eat little fish, always have and always will. Fish are indiscriminate feeders and will eat what is presented to them. They don't have preferences, they take what they are given. Andrepparttar 146865 nice thing about little fish is they are always present.

In most rivers and lakes there will be almost always be fish fry of one kind or another present. Withrepparttar 146866 predominant season for fish fry beingrepparttar 146867 spring, they easily will be present until late fall, and often year around. But even if fry are not around, minnows are present year around, sculpins, silversides, alewives, smelt,repparttar 146868 list is endless. And even if you say there are no minnows available where you fish, well, trout are cannibalistic, if your fishing waters have big trout, then it also has little trout. In short,repparttar 146869 'hatch' is always on when you are fishing streamers.

Besides year around availability, another advantage of fishing streamers, is your average catch is going to be larger. Fish are masters of energy conservation and expenditure. They will not pursue food if it costs more energy to catch then they will receive from its consumption. That is why inrepparttar 146870 winter they will not chase food, you literally have to hit them inrepparttar 146871 nose with it. This fact, helps us to understandrepparttar 146872 feeding habits of large trout. A large trout holed down deep, not particularly interested in eating, will consume a minnow, if givenrepparttar 146873 opportunity, no matter what. They might not rise up to devour size 22 Tricos, unless they are in a feeding mode, but given a minnow that they only have to lunge for, is an opportunity they won't turn down very often. That is a lot of energy consumed without a lot of energy exerted.

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