View Full Version : New Cutthroat technique!!!!!
Actually it's probably not new but it is new to me :yay:
Drifting the lower Trask yesterday I cast my reverse spider along the shoreline then twitched it while retrieving... :bigshock: I was amazed at how many trout would come out of the shadows to attack it as we floated by! A few nice size ones too!
So here is my plan for trying it out further...
Put in at 5th Street boat ramp ($2 fee) in Tillamook making sure it's slack high tide and row up to just a little ways above the park where the ramp is.
Then just fish your way back down to the takeout :shrug:
The cutts would hit just dragging my fly behind the boat also.
Jennie@ifish
10-08-2005, 07:25 PM
OK, I'll try that in the morning. Thank you!
Jen
Mark Vickers
10-09-2005, 06:33 PM
The cutts would hit just dragging my fly behind the boat also.
There are many regulars on here that will say that isn't flyfishing.
That said, I regularly practice the dark art of trolling flies. It works amazingly well for many species.
There are many regulars on here that will say that isn't flyfishing.
Probably isn't but what am I supposed to do while trying to fly fish in a gear chuckers boat? :shrug:
bobberdown9321
10-09-2005, 07:36 PM
i saw a guide boat fishing the alsea this weekend for cutts never seen one before they said the git a few on spiders
Steve L.
10-09-2005, 08:50 PM
Hmm, I don't see the difference between the dark art of trolling a fly and the white light of floating in a toon or float tube with a nymph on a sinking line. Seems kosher to me, maybe I'm just amoral.
Abalone
10-10-2005, 09:57 AM
Sorry Stew but twitching isn't new. Ask AndyK, I do it all the time. I learned it years ago. Twitching entices Cutts to bite.
Jennie you should know that cuzz I learned it indirectly from Bill......
I float the upper end of the Siletz yesterday from the Bridge to Morgan park. Forget it...The cutts are gone...
Seven hours of rowing and only caught one Seven inch Coastal Cutthroat. I did the same trip last year the same weekend and caught over Twenty of them Fourteen inches up the nineteen.
Did an OFC work party on the Trask Saturday at the New location. ( Rock Hole ) and saw lots of Cutts rising.
Go figure, and I drove all the way to the Siletz.
Sorry Stew but twitching isn't new
Isn't that what I said?
Actually it's probably not new but it is new to me
OwyheeKIller
10-11-2005, 07:59 AM
Stew, thanks for sharing, sounds like a very effective technique. I've been thinking of taking my girlfriend flyfishing on the Trask, but I've never fished it. Could you recommend some patterns to bring? Do you do any nymphing or is it a top-water show only? Can you point me in a direction where I might be able to intercept them? I appreciate any help.
OK :cool:
Dragfreedrift
10-11-2005, 10:17 AM
new or old....all that matters is that it works, right?
thanks for sharing Stew.
DFD