New to this whole thing. This is the creek right by my house, in Colorado. Sometimes use tenkara, sometimes a standard fly rod. I've been trying every combination of hoppers, worms, gnats, eggs, copper John's. Using wet/heavy flies on the bottom, floating/light/dry up top. Hunting for pools, foam, eddies. I've gotten a couple nips, but at this point it feels like the fish are teasing me.
Any advice would be huge. Like I said, I'm newish, and haven't had any real mentoring.
Thank you in advance.
Posted by mr_trashbear
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Pick up small/medium size rocks in the river bed and observe what insect life is on the bottom of it, then try to match the best you can. Also gently place the rocks back where you found them.
It should give you a good baseline for what the fish are probably eating in that stretch of water.
That’s tough water, and much of it is probably not worth fishing. I would work upstream, not down, wear drab clothes, be sneaky, try not to knock rocks, and dip generic nymphs in the pockets or large dries in the same.
Work upstream, cast from as far away as possible, and use a dry dropper so you are hitting them with both top water and nymphs.
Also don’t do more than 3-5 casts in each hole.