My Only Sure Fire Dry Fly Fishing Tip

[Dances]

That would mean about 99% of the pople that fish the sk would have to stay home. I wish it would really work out like that but we all have to live and deal with it.

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Work is for people who dont know how to fish

[Ray Wilcken]

Elbow to elbow fishing is not my idea of having fun. Maybe thats why I like high mountain fly fishing so much! I go salmon and steelhead fishing during the week instead of weekends when the people pressure is less!

[Ray Wilcken]

Leave the dog and friends with waders that like to wade from one fishing hole to the other in the middle of the stream at home! I've had more holes ruined by these people (dogs) than any other!

[local_hooker]

I once fished the Selway river in Idaho with my wife and dog. My wife was throwing sticks in the river (up stream) for the dog. My wife decided to come back down to the riffle I was fishing because it was getting dark. I still had fly line piled up at my feet and a #16 caddis in my hand. My wife decides to throw the stick for scout one more time. This is where everything went into slow motion. The dog takes off, fly line wrapped firmly around her chest, I see the pile of line at my feet rapidly becoming less, I yell at scout to stop, she did not. I had forgotten about the fly in my hand untill scout ran out of line and it was completely imbedded in my thumb. Now I hear faint whimpering behind me, my wife was laughing so hard she was hyperventilating. To top things off it was a barbed hook and I had no plyers to pinch the barb before backing the hook out. So as I am pulling the barb back through, with hemostats, she began snapping pictures of the agony I was experiencing. So I agree leave the dogs at home, whether real or the wader wearing variety!

[Gone Fishin]

Last winter steelhead season, I floated Mills to Sollie on the Wilson with a man and his wife as my clients for the day. We had made one trip through, and went back to Mills again to make a second float trip that day. The sun was shinning and the water was in great condition, there were about 20-30 bank anglers covering the water at Mills and also a big black lab that was running around the gravel bar. The man and I were busy getting the boat ready to go again, while the man's wife was throwing sticks on the gravel bar for the lab to fetch. And, I guess you could say the man's wife wasn't much of a fisherman and really didn't know better, as she took the stick for the final throw and tossed it out into the middle of the river!!! In front of all the fishermen!!! The dog went bounding out into the water, and we immediatly had 57 cold stares from the fishermen on the beach! I kinda sunk as low as I could get in my boat, and rowed out of there before anyone could get a weapon loaded! I really think it was a novice mistake, and she'll probably never do it again!

[This message has been edited by Gone Fishin (edited 12-03-2000).]

[lippee]

I dont believe that a dog is going to ruin the hole your fishing,just today myself and a friend and his dog jack a 100 pound plus chocolate lab where fishing the crooked river just below bowman dam,jack swam back and forth between the two of us all day long.we lost count of how many fish we landed but it was more than fifty.so i dont see how mans favorite friend is going to ruin your day.i have heard people on the wilson,trask,kilchis or any north coast stream say that they have the scent of a seal thats b.s its just there excuse for not catching anything. dogs have the right to be on the river with there owners and as long as the dog is behaving i see know problem with it.i also have two cheaspeake bay reterivers its hard to keep them out of the water but i dont believe there going to decrease my odds of catching fish.

[Ray Wilcken]

Lippee I think you lost track of the topic. The topic was "Dry fly fishing" I am not sure what kind of fishing you were doing but I have never had a trout rise, steelhead or anything else when there has been a dog swimming in the water! I have watched a lot of salmon go back and forth in front of people in waders as well! Correct me if I am wrong.

[lippee]

Ray as a matter fact we were dry fly fishing on the crooked river,and the trout were rising to our elk hair caddis flies.what i was saying that the dogs are not going to ruin the hole for the whole day,perhaps for a little while,maybe long enough to change flies or tippets,i just don't know for a fact, i was not trying to insult your frusration some people let there animals run astray those people should leave there animals at home,but most people i fish with there dogs usually behave and are fun to take along. fish on

[Fuzzybutt & Angel]

From what I understand, its the smell of the dog that scares off the fish,(probably the activity in the water as well) as it would if any predator entered the water. It is because of this, that when I am tying jigs, I ALWAYS keep my hands clean, and I won't let our Rottweiller anywhere near me.. it discourages the fish. Maybe i'm wrong? any other opinions?

Angel