amills wrote:

What are folks favorite more effective techniques to fish streamers on the White River system?  Then how do we match general fly designs that will best be fished with those techniques?  And, finally how do we weight them to enhance the activity of the fly for the technique.  How do sinking/floating setups and leader to fly length change these attributes of streamer fishing.
Check out Galloup's book, "Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout." Sinking lines, short leaders, lots of casting to structure with a jerk-strip retrieve.  The technique doesn't work well everywhere/everyday, but what does?  The book is well written and fairly thorough.  The book isn't up to date concerning flies.  It includes zoo cougars and butt monkeys, but doesn't include newer flies such as boogie men, circus peanuts, peanut envies, etc. 

I like fast sinking lines because they get down quickly in fast and/or deep water and they stay there with fast retrieves.  A 200 grain and a 6 wt isn't a bad set up to start with.  Fishing articulated flies with weight at the head gives you side-to-side and diving motion. Wrapping the shank of streamers with lead will give you a flat drop.  Your normal 9' trout leader makes casting these big flies really hard. The leader tends to collapse before straightening out on the forward cast which creates slack in the line making it difficult to set the hook if a fish hits as soon as the fly hits the water.  Also, accuracy suffers if you can't get the leader to fully lay down everytime.  Longer leaders do help the fly get down faster with floating lines, but that's why you use the sinking line.

 


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