Hello, I wanna preface this by saying I am pretty new, only been fly fishing since late September. This is one of the spots I have been going to lately as its part of the DH and gets stocked frequently this time of year. According to some of the people I have run into here they stock them right at the bridge in the picture(one guy saying they just throw them off the bridge lol). Since its winter I know they are in this deep hole pictured. If I were to guess I'd say its between 8-10ft deep. I usually fish this spot for about 20 minutes before I heading down stream a bit to water I am more comfortable with. I always see people pulling fish out of this hole with spinning reels, yet I cant seem to catch one here. I have tried tying on a ton of tippet and adding some split shot to get deep enough. This usually ends with my leader coming back through the eyes on my rod. I know I am getting deep enough as there is a log at the bottom I have gotten stuck on. Tried different flys, with strike indicator, and without. Nothing I seem to do works here. Early in the morning I can see them rising like crazy, so I tried dry flies and nothing. I want to say euro nymphing is probably my best option but I have no clue what I am doing in that department lol.
So my question is, how would you fish this? Or would you just skip it and move on?
Posted by ChroniicHD