Bill Kiene semi-retired
08-10-2019, 02:41 PM
....a knotless tapered leader and a light fly, barbless................for almost everything that swims.
To be able to catch anything doing this I need to seriously select my places, the time of year and the time of day.
For trout I like to fish dries on top or strip or swing wet flies so I am looking for hatches.
For bass I fish the spring time for top water and fish early and late in the day with poppers spring, summer and fall.
For Steelhead I fish in the Fall, Sept/Oct/Nov, with a leader as long as my rod and an unweighted Classic dark winged fly, AM and PM or in the shade.
For tropical salt water flats fishing most everyone fishes a floating line for Bones and Permit.
For Tarpon I like the AM in shallower flats in the warm months with smaller aggressive size fish. Poppers, Hairbugs and unweight flies all work, especially if it is calm.
I use mostly a floater in Baja for everything but many might never use a floater. I like poppers and airheads for Dorado, Jacks, Trevally and Roosterfish.
You can catch Shad with a floating line very late in the day....
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I don't mind a sink-tip but I don't like casting fast sinking lines and Clousers and not a big fan of indicators.
The main reason I fish this way is the fact that it is fun and challenging but also the casting is so nice.
I don't recommend this style to everyone because you have to be happy with catching less fish.
When I started fly fishing there were no sink-tips, 30' shooting heads were just invented, there were no indicator until the 1980s?
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If I go out in the Delta I would fish a Rio OBS #6 sink integrated line with a Clouser type fly.
If I floated the lower Sac I would probably fish the traditional 2 fly indo rig but maybe swing flies in the PM?
In lakes in the day time with no hatch I would use a WF5I clear slow singing full line. Indo fishing in a lake has to be the worst?
I don't have to get high numbers of fish so my system works for me.
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To be able to catch anything doing this I need to seriously select my places, the time of year and the time of day.
For trout I like to fish dries on top or strip or swing wet flies so I am looking for hatches.
For bass I fish the spring time for top water and fish early and late in the day with poppers spring, summer and fall.
For Steelhead I fish in the Fall, Sept/Oct/Nov, with a leader as long as my rod and an unweighted Classic dark winged fly, AM and PM or in the shade.
For tropical salt water flats fishing most everyone fishes a floating line for Bones and Permit.
For Tarpon I like the AM in shallower flats in the warm months with smaller aggressive size fish. Poppers, Hairbugs and unweight flies all work, especially if it is calm.
I use mostly a floater in Baja for everything but many might never use a floater. I like poppers and airheads for Dorado, Jacks, Trevally and Roosterfish.
You can catch Shad with a floating line very late in the day....
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I don't mind a sink-tip but I don't like casting fast sinking lines and Clousers and not a big fan of indicators.
The main reason I fish this way is the fact that it is fun and challenging but also the casting is so nice.
I don't recommend this style to everyone because you have to be happy with catching less fish.
When I started fly fishing there were no sink-tips, 30' shooting heads were just invented, there were no indicator until the 1980s?
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If I go out in the Delta I would fish a Rio OBS #6 sink integrated line with a Clouser type fly.
If I floated the lower Sac I would probably fish the traditional 2 fly indo rig but maybe swing flies in the PM?
In lakes in the day time with no hatch I would use a WF5I clear slow singing full line. Indo fishing in a lake has to be the worst?
I don't have to get high numbers of fish so my system works for me.
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