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Show The primary purpose of buck-tail, buck-tail, streamer and spinner flies is to get big fish, and big fish lie deep. Getting a fly down under un-der the current is the first lesson in this type of fishing. An obvious method of sinking a fly deep is to weight it. The best form of weighted fly has a split BB or other metal ball clamped on the head of the fly in the making. Others are weighted in the body. A fly not picweighted can be fixed by-winding by-winding the long shank of the hook with strip lead. ... Yet a fly, no matter how it is weighted, will plane to the sur- face with the line and leader when it is under tension across or against the current. The way it Is handled in the water makes the difference claims fly fishing expert Dan Holland. For instance, when the fly Is ctst across curre.it, it should be allcwed to float free for some distance on an almost slack hne. If the current Is strong enough, the fly should be cast quartering upstream instead of across to give it a chance to get down. An ether-method is to drop the fly in the current where it sur-ges sur-ges over a rock and cuts undpr the surface beyond it. Or if it is dropped on the dividing line between be-tween current and backwater, it will sink readily. In any case, once the fly Is down under, you'll get the most killing action with a series of short twitches, although all types or retrieves should be tried through any likely looking spot, Work the fly "?low, especially where interested in walleyes, bass or pike. Even with large trout, you'll have better luck with a slow-moving fly. Often the current will grab the belly of the line and race the fly along in spite of everything. every-thing. To counteract this, the angler must concentrate on the opposite, a slow retrieve. It will pay off. No matter what fly you use, make the stream work for you. Let the current take charge. It is bound to carry the fly in the channels where fish expect food. |