u/Basic-Afternoon-1

LETS SWEEP EM BABY

Finally had a great day with the trout. I landed 4 and lost 3, including my biggest fish ever on the fly. Just rainbows today but hoping if I keep at it I’ll find some wild browns in this river. Got one on the mop fly today, but then it fell apart so I switched up since I only had one. Ended up throwing a TINY midge, which was basically just a bare hook with some black thread wrapped around it, and 6” above a pink fuzz egg. No indicator or dry fly, just let it sink and drift in the current. Got 3 more, all on the midge, with the pink egg acting as an attractor. I almost went home when it started raining hard as soon as I got there, but I figured the water was still clear so it should still be good and I’m glad I stayed. Thank you all for your help 🙏.

Many of you have helped me out a ton on my last couple posts. Thank you all. Today I finally caught some trout. I got 3. 2 on a grub fly because I found a big grub under a rock (Id please idk what it’s called and I would love to buy more, and 1 on a tiny midge that a nice old man gave me under a pink egg. Unfortunately, my hook setting and fish fighting skills still suck, so I lost another 9 trout, but I’m counting today as a win. Landed 3, know I had the right bait because I got so many bites. Tomorrow I’m going to try again and hopefully have a better land ratio. But I’m so happy I caught some today!

Many of you guys saw and helped me out tremendously on my last post and I cannot thank you all enough. Today I went fly fishing at the same spot again and it was a massive step in the right direction. I made huge improvements to my casting and mending. I also was able to evaluate the stream and figure out what the trout would want. I flipped some rocks because I didn’t see any flies on the surface and I found some scorpion looking larvae. I decided to tie on this fly and a squirmy worm on an indicator rig, and I was able to catch 2 little smallmouth, but more importantly, I got 5 trout bites, including one from a nice wild brown. At least I know I’m doing something right. I hooked into 2 of them but landed none, and now I will get into my new unexpected problem. I have no idea how or when to set the hook on trout, and I also don’t know how to properly fight them on fly, hence losing all my fish today. If anyone has any advice for that I would really appreciate it, but I feel like today was a huge step in the right direction and I am so close to catching lots of trout I can taste it. I am going to try again tomorrow morning and Id love to know what I probably did wrong bringing the fish in or setting the hook so I can hopefully hook and land them tomorrow. Thank you so much everyone!

Came right up to me while I was fishing. Looked at me for a bit and then moved away.

Heard it while fishing around sunset. Went on for about 20 minutes before stopping. At one point a dog started barking at the noise in the distance and it kept howling over the bark. This is in a suburban area but with lots of open land, taken in a very large park much of which is trailess, open woods. Wondering what it is.

Fishing a very difficult river in northern nj recently. It’s very shallow and I’ve had a very hard time catching fish since I’m new. It has strong ish current and crystal clear water. Very few holes deeper than 3 feet. Has wild and stocked trout. A lot of people do pretty well there but I am having a very hard time. Been there five times with 3 total fish over about 20 hours and been skunked 3 times. Any advice on what flies I should try, what rigs, indicator or no indicator, and how to do a more natural drift? Again, very new, just looking for some advice.

First time ever! Thanks everyone for the help on my last post I was able to get a fish on a dry fly. 8 total. Most beautiful spot I’ve ever been to up in the mountains.

Super stoked to see this bird, these are the best pics I could get at the spot it was sitting. Spotted in New Jersey.

So I just got into fly fishing since my grandfather left me his old gear from years ago. I’ve been conventional fishing for years but this is a new challenge for me. Been hitting a river by my house which has stocked and wild trout. I have caught a few so far on nymphs. Today on my way out I found this pool and there were trout breaching EVERYWHERE. About one every 3 seconds. I tried every dry fly I own and the ones that matched the hatch I fished for probably 30 minutes but I could not get a bite. I would upload the video of them jumping but it won’t let me. I tried all different retrieves as well. I was matching the flies I saw flying all around me but when looking at the water it looked like the trout were surfacing on nothing. I am really trying to learn as much as I can so I figured I’d post since I’d like to get em next time. So what were they eating? What did I do wrong / what could i have done differently? I have found this community very welcoming and I am excited to hear what you guys have to say. Thanks!