Hi All,
I am a bit bored at the office, and as always I am thinking about steelhead! Anyways I wanted to ask a question about depth control. Does anyone out there use a floating mow tip or a slower intermediate mow tip when casting heavy indurders? Then using leader length to control the depth at witch the fly rides?
I have a couple specific runs in mind on the Trinity, and was thinking about how to fish it more effectively next time I go up. There are two runs that I know to hold fish, they run about 3-4 feet deep and have some really nice boulders sitting in them. Anyways I was struggling to fish them effectively ( in my mind) with t-11. I was getting deep enough, however I encountered 2 problems: The run was fish able on the far side, buy the time I made a cast, mend and let my fly sink, I had missed some of the better water in the run as the swing really started. I also would hit the occasional boulder with my sink tip, messing up my swing and causing me to snag up ( and even when I got my fly back) and recast.
While on the drive home I was wondering: what if I fished my skagit line with a floating tip, a heavy, heavy, sink like a rock intruder and 4-5 feet of leader to more or less keep my fly at a dangle. This may alleviate the boulder issue, as if I hit a boulder the fly would likely slide around it rather than get dragged down into the crevice and snag. This would also sink quickly in the slot I'm thinking of, then I could more or less swim the fly out and around the boulders.
Anyone tried anything like this before, heavy flies instead of heavy tips?
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