mute
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Heres a little diagram of a part of a stream. Starting from the left, where the suckers are laying, thats about 6 inches of water that goes to about a foot which is fast riffles. Then theres the drop off hole where the trout are laying, thats is a hoel of about 3 feet and it levels out behind them to about 2 feet steady down. How would you go about getting down to the trout in that hole? Its hard because you only have about 10 feet of the riffles to cast up to and it pushes your line/fly down so fast that it cant drop down to the trouts face. And if you add alot of weight it messes up the natural drift below/gets snagged in the rocks in the shallow riffles before it gets to the fish.
The best method ive came up with is standing upstream and trying to just drift the fly right torward then letting my line straighten out with no slack, pulling back up the current then lettign it drift down again.
The best method ive came up with is standing upstream and trying to just drift the fly right torward then letting my line straighten out with no slack, pulling back up the current then lettign it drift down again.