u/Shroom_Druid

Disclaimer: I made the exact same post at r/flyfishing, but it said the community does not allow for actual cross-posting here, so i made this post for r/troutfishing, since ive gotten great advice from here as well.

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Hi everyone! Two days ago I visited an alpine lake to do some fly fishing.

The lake is full of wild browns, they were very active i would see them every 5 minutes jumping out of the water, or rising and eating just below the film.

I used a dry sedge (top left) with no luck, then tied a double rig, with the orange stimulator (bottom right) and a chironome nymph, around 35-40cm bellow the stimulator

After the cast i see the biggest brown ive ever seen rising up, checking out the dry fly, touching it and then refusing it and leaving

An another fisherman i encountered later told me he was using a size 16 black ant, and it looked a lot like my size 16 black parachute fly

What are your tactics/fly selection for alpine lakes: What other advice do vou have to give me?

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PS I fished the stream that starts from the lake as I was hiking up to the fishing spot, the trout there were happy enough to bite into size 0 spinners, but on the lake they would onlv accept flies.

Hi everyone! Two days ago I visited an alpine lake to do some fly fishing. The lake is full of wild browns, they were very active i would see them every 5 minutes jumping out of the water, or rising and eating just below the film. I used a dry sedge (top left) with no luck, then I tied a double rig, with the orange stimulator (bottom right) and a chironome nymph, around 35-40cm bellow the stimulator.

After the cast i see the biggest brown ive ever seen rising up, checking out the dry fly, touching it and then dismissing it and leaving.

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An another fisherman i encountered later told me he was using a size 16 black ant, and it looked a lot like my size 16 black parachute fly.

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What are your tactics/fly selection for alpine lakes? What other advice do you have to give me?

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P.S I fished the stream that starts from the lake as I was hiking up to the fishing spot, the trout there were happy enough to bite into size 0 spinners, but on the lake they would only accept flies.

What it says in the title. I've been trying to fly fish for two years now, finally yesterday managed to get a trout to eat my elk hair caddis during a hatch. Didn't manage to set the hook in time because I was dumbstruck, but it was the most magnificent thing ive ever witnessed.

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Then in my infinite hubris I tried to rig a hopper dropper rig with one elk hair caddis and a caddis nymph underneath. First cast, the worst birds nest ive ever seen and I had to sacrifice my entire (and last) leader, which led to my fly fishing excursion to end. Luckily I had my spinning rod w me, but they were just following or bumping the spinners but no bites.

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How do I cast without tangles?

Any help would he appreciated! Thanks a lot!

Hello everyone! Thanks to this sub and your advice on my previous posts ive set up my first ul spinning rod and ive managed in two outings to catch over 10 trout (9 native browns and one stocked rainbow).

Today I visited a new river which has great brown trout population, but the flow was so fast and the river was quite swollen as the dam halfway to the top of the mountain was completely open.

My issue is that I would launch a spinner upstream (mepps size 0 or 1) and it would pass right by me without having time to start reeling it in, so zero spinner action. I tried with 5.7g spoons but to no avail.

Is it possible to fish such a river with spinners, or is it possible even to try to fish it with nymphs on my fly rod?

Should I wait until July for the flow to reduce?

I've uploaded photos of the river

Thanks everyone!