Sweet video of dry fly steelhead takes

[Skunked]

Came across this on vimeo, some great footage http://www.vimeo.com/3375725

[hooksetter1]

Thanks a lot, now I won't be able to sleep tonight! I'll be feeling the adrenalin tomorrow standing in one of my favorite runs swinging a few tried and true flies hoping for a cooperative steelhead, just waiting for that tug...

[adfluvial angler]

Originally Posted by Skunked

Came across this on vimeo, some great footage http://www.vimeo.com/3375725

Wonderful, thank you.
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[Klamath_King]

You know the guy is a good fly fisherman when he casts farther than I can with hardware

[Klamanite]

That was really cool

I've never fished 'em like that so it was neat to see how it is done..... Thanks

[kbris]

Wow! Poetry in motion. Makes me wanna take up spey casting. It looked so effortless. Beautiful river, beautiful fish, beautiful day. The best of all worlds.

[chromeseeker]

That's pretty cool. The guy's an accomplished caster with the dry line--that fly is fishing right when it hits the water, which is critical but sometimes difficult to do with skaters.

What's interesting is how often those fish would rise to the fly when he's actively stripping it. I've often wondered how many times fish will rise to the skater without us even knowing they are there.

Awesome!

CS

[neuronick]

Originally Posted by chromeseeker

What's interesting is how often those fish would rise to the fly when he's actively stripping it.
CS

It seems like that guy ALWAYS strips those flies. Does anybody else have good luck doing this? Does anybody actively strip subsurface streamers for summer steelhead? I think it makes sense, but I have not done it. Plenty of fish are caught after smashing a BlueFox spinner moving fast across a current.

[Slow and Low]

i got one last weekend stripping in. no intentional hook up. Saem think last yrear striped in a 20 pounder.

As far as stripping the dry...he is probably trying to kep it from being pulled under in theat turbulence.

[PacificCoastSteel]

he's fishing it as he's stripping it in, sure.... but when that fly lands in the zone and starts popping its not because he's stripping...

he's "chugging" the fly to make em look up in hot water - or just to get em fired up... it works tho

watch what he does with his rod tip @ 2:07 & 2:45... chugging not stripping


sweet video

[Carver_OR]

I agree about the "chugging" and not stripping in. I've caught "D" fish chugging when a smooth swing wouldn't produce.

Pat
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[PacificCoastSteel]

i know a few guides on the Deschutes - more experienced then myself for sure - who almost always fish their (and their clients) skaters on the chug...

[AndyK]

Originally Posted by Skunked

Came across this on vimeo, some great footage http://www.vimeo.com/3375725

Looks like the "Tree" hole on the North Umpqua. There is a guide on the North Umpqua, first name Rich; may be the same guy. If you noticed early in the video a black lab. Rich has a black lab that he takes on many of his trips.

The guides call fishing a skater that way "popping". You get the fly to "pop" by bouncing the rid tip.

[salmonslug]

Originally Posted by AndyK

The guides call fishing a skater that way "popping". You get the fly to "pop" by bouncing the rid tip.

I never got a good look at the fly, but I was wondering if it was actually a popper and not a dry. I've seen a guy rise steel to a black foam-bodied popper fishing the same way-- and at a place that had already been hammered by bait and hardware with no results.

[flyjunky]

The fly he is using is not most likely a popper. There is a skater that, I believe, Scott Howell designed specifically for "chugging" on the surface. I watched Scott do this a few years ago in the boat hole, middle of the day, and pulled a hot fish within 10 minutes of starting to cast......right after another angler just fished the hole. Then later that night I came back to the hole and tried to duplicate his technique and landed a fish right in front of two clients that fished with Scott the day before.

[Horsecreek]

Originally Posted by Skunked

Came across this on vimeo, some great footage http://www.vimeo.com/3375725

That is absolutely beautiful!......ON A DRY!...I like his twitch...skipping across the water...amazing....just amazing! It does not get any better than this! Thanks for sharing some great footage!

[TheWaker]

That is Rich Z.for sure.

[steel_beaver]

Originally Posted by salmonslug

I never got a good look at the fly, but I was wondering if it was actually a popper and not a dry. I've seen a guy rise steel to a black foam-bodied popper fishing the same way-- and at a place that had already been hammered by bait and hardware with no results.

I was wondering about the fly too... Wouldn't most skaters sink if you pop them like that... especially in faster water?

[Wild Chrome]

That is very cool video! Makes me wonder how many minutes they had to shoot to get those cool shots?

[Spade]

Thanks for posting that, it's great footage!

[Joe Schmo]

I can follow the link but I can't see the video. Weak sauce!!

[cooky]

The skaters that have become very popular on the N. Umpqua are foam back skaters. Most of the guys I see fishing 'em don't even riffle hitch them because they are so bouyant. Pretty cool big & black foam back skaters... very cool. I'm heading down there at the end of the week... CAN'T WAIT!!! I've always thought taking a steelie on a dry was like an 8000m peak of fly fishing but these guys make it look pretty easy.

[rockaway]

Wonderful video and casting footage. Makes me want a spey rod even more.

Greg

[pontoonbandit]

That was really neat to watch! I wish I could cast like that, I catch more trees then fish.

[The Fish Box]

that is a sweet video.