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If no hook-ups occur on bottom, or there are no weeds on the fly (or no fish), add five seconds to the next cast and repeat until you snag the bottom, bring back some aquatic weeds, or catch a trout.Īnchoring is usually best when fishing with Hi-D lines. After casting, count the number of seconds before stripping the fly back. One common approach to determine when a fly has reached bottom is called the count-down method. Because it’s cooler and darker near bottom, that’s where the majority of the decent trout will be during the day. The most common pond depths that I Hi-D fish for squaretails are from 10 to 30 feet, and I want my fly right next to bottom (dredging the bottom) before stripping the fly.

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I like to have a full range of sinking lines available that descend from a rate of 3 inches through 6 inches per second. The weight of the fly line used depends on the water depth. Generally speaking, a fly rod for casting Hi-D fly lines should be on the long side (I use 6-weight, 9-footers), and its “action” (flexibility) needs some spine to it as in a “fast-action” rod. Granted, it does take different timing and some practice, but if you can cast a floater you can learn to cast a sinker. I actually agree with that assessment to some degree, but matching the correct fly rod with a proper fly line can produce casting almost as smooth as a smelt.

Some may have also heard that casting with a sinking fly line isn’t quite like a hot knife through butter as it is with a floating line.

Excuse me? Geez, there’s still a fly rod, fly line and a fly involved. Sure, there are a few stuffy souls out there who pontificate that the use of sinking fly lines is not really fly fishing. I assure you that it works, and works well. How? Go deep with sinking fly lines (high-density lines) and tie on either a streamer or a nymph. I’d like to change that outlook for fly fishers by describing a technique that will put a squaretail in your net as easily during the day as it can be done early and late. But, how often do these anglers find trout rising on ponds? Sometimes, but it primarily occurs in the early morning or at dusk.Ī gorgeous brook trout like this one can be caught using sinking fly line to dredge the bottom of a pond. It just makes me as happy as a Maine clam.įly fishing with dry flies on ponds is usually best when some kind of insect is hatching, resulting in brook trout coming to the surface where they are approachable to a dry fly Waltonian. Ponds give me a sense of solitude and tranquility coupled with soundlessness except for the calling of birds, the swishing of a fly line and the dipping of my paddle. Unlike the majority of fly anglers, I prefer to paddle a canoe on still water rather than wade fast-moving streams in the hunt for trout. The enjoyment of seeing a trout take a fly with a slurp or splash on the surface is as good as it gets, and it doesn’t matter if it takes place on moving stream water or on the placid surface of a pond. There’s no question that fly fishing’s premier method for taking squaretails (brook trout) is with a floating fly line and the fly box classic, a dry fly.

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