Articles With the Tag . . . low water

Small nymphs, light split shot and a yarn indy won the day. Some dedicated streamer work got little attention. Trout were mostly shallow.

Nymphing may have technically caught just as many trout, but the process was tedious. Streamers were a better choice, but only because I could cover water and be extremely accurate with the presentations. I placed the fly very close to the structure, over and over, as I worked upstream. Without that accuracy, I think the streamer fishing would have failed.

. . . I’m tired of the low water fishing, but I continue to learn things every day. And that’s good fishing.

“Drought conditions. Pretty low. Lowest I’ve ever seen.” None of these expressions means much, and there’s a wide set of situations where casting a line into skinny water hurts nothing but an angler’s pride. Let’s get to that . . .