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THE SECRETS I stood in the river near a tall overhanging cedar. Downstream a few feet beyond, stood a clump of giant conifer. The beauty of the giant trees yielded cover and great shade. A promise land of giant trout, stood before me where I wade. I surveyed the scene contemplating, "What a great trout lie!" I false casted my line several times, then presented my dry fly. My line shot towards my target, just above the ring of the rise. Something grabbed my fly suddenly, much to my surprise. I'd caught myself an evergreen, a branch, for which I have no taste. I gave my line a twisting tug, saving my fly in gentle haste. Trout kept feeding everywhere. Uninterrupted, rising wild and free. As trout kept gulping insects, I was catching branches of each tree. I'd try again, but I placed each cast, around yet another grabby limb. Every time I worked my line free, nearby trout would rise again. I stepped back looking at the picture, and then only did I see. Flies decorated each and every branch, left by fishing men preceeding me. Unsuccessful attempts so plentiful, each fly marked someone's fallen cast. If these trees could talk to reveal secrets, their stories would be vast. |
Additional Notes:
NOTE: By way of explanation,
'A trout lie' is where a trout feeds, looking upstream where he waits to ambush floating insects drifting toward him.
'A rise' is when a trout explodes through the water's surface to grab the unsuspecting insect, and retreats again back under the surface exposing an expanding ring on the surface which gives away the position of his 'feeding lie'. The trick is to present the fly above the ring to drift to the fish to present the illusion of 'real' food.
'A False Cast' is several casts, both in a forward and backward motion, done to extend your line out over the
lie, and also to dry the fly by 'air drying' it to create bouyancy as it floats down softly to the water's surface, much like a real fly would land on the film.
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