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Ronan's report

For me it is that time of the year, guiding season, so now look forward to something like 200 work days out there on the river and add to that one my own personal fishing days with friends. I look forward to see my regular customers return and new customers, all with expectations of may fish days and the chance to nail a personal best, which was exactly what Greg's fortune brought him when l guided him this past Wednesday, a gorgeous White river trophy Brown, ( See pic). Fishing a Dead Drift technique.

Aside from the many options open to the fly fisher almost certainly so far as general river trout fishing is concerned, it is the Dead drift method that is mostly deployed, for very good reasons, it is probably overall the most effective way to catch trout, it matters not by what technique you choose to use, with or without a indicator, it amounts to the same thing, all be it granted some of the techniques do require overall way more skill levels than watching a bobber, saying that indicator fishing is not quite as simple as many might believe. I was recently posed the question at a program l was presenting which was, how can you call fishing with a indicator Dead Drift. Truth of the matter is you cannot, but it is a term we use that almost all fly fisherman understand which is you are attempting to fish a fly at a pace related the natural stream flow, which is almost impossible to achieve, but we can get pretty close at times, good enough to fool a fish, well most of the time.

I figured out last year that on a average year of guiding l will watch indicators for something in the region of 1000 hours and more, hard to believe but its true. Now bear in mind indicators can be tandem rigs with a nymph dry dropper set up, it may be the greased up tip of the fly line, leader or tippet, or simply one of the many indicator options out there to day, which is more the percentage of use. Fact is my eyes are way tuned to watching indicators for a take and often as not telling the fisherman to set the hook, l will see indications that they will not. Simple as it may seem, it really is not, for as we know much else has to take place for the system to work, aside from the choice of fly or flies used. Speed and depth of water, length of leader/tippet, weight if used and above all the right choice of indicator for not all will suit. Bottom line is to set the system up for the maximum of sensitivity to detect very subtle takes. Are you wade or boat drift fishing as that is also a very important consideration, short or long continuous drifts. We then have to deal with the issue of line management to maintain for the fly to be presented for the longest possible time and the productive depth. So far as l am concerned you cannot beat yarn indicator set ups, but that is another story.

Back to the dead drift deal. So how to you convey what exactly a dead drift is when you are drifting on moving water, other than saying to present the fly at a pace as close as possible to the natural stream movement. How do you deal with the variables in water hydraulics, surface movement caused by wind direction and more to the point the attachment of the whole rig to the fly line. A fly thrown onto the water will more or less work with all movement of water be it a dry or a nymph, all be it the hook and nature of materials used will have some influence here, once it is rigged up for a fishing mode the situation is very different, a factor we cannot overcome as this connection is of course the only way we can connect with a fish and there after catch and release it. Does all this start to become a complicated issue, well yes if you really try to evaluate all factors of consideration at least to extremes.

Do l try to understand all of these evaluations, and do l, well to be honest over the years l have, has this been of benefit, you bet it has, but it still amounts to at the end of the day a fly fishing technique known as Dead Drift.

Have a great week all.

Davy.

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