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Fly Fishing Tailwaters: Tactics and Patterns for Year-Round by Pat Dorsey

By Pat Dorsey

Tailwaters offer amazing year-round fishing, yet you should know the way to fish them. the writer covers how tailwaters paintings - how chilly waters published from a dam have an effect on the water, the aquatic lifestyles, and the fish. This ebook has all of it: the hatches, the easiest imitation flies to exploit in each condition, nymphing and dry-fly strategies, all illustrated with drawings through artist Dave corridor and greater than two hundred colour photos.

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The Green River below Flaming Gorge, Grey Reef, and the Bighorn River below Yellowtail Dam have dense populations of blue-winged olives, but the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam is devoid of mayflies for all practical purposes. Terry Gunn believes that the apparent reason that the Colorado does not have the “normal tailwater hatches” is because the water temperatures do not fluctuate. He also believes that Glen Canyon is the beginning of the river system, so nothing can migrate downriver. Don’t let the absence of mayflies fool you.

Matt Miles spotted this feeding fish on the Taylor River before casting to it. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Once the fry emerge from the gravel (redds), they must immediately find protection from current and predators. Initially, their living quarters are in shallow water: along a grassy streambank, under a log, bush, or deadfall, hiding in dense aquatic foliage, or in other slow-moving sections of the stream. Juvenile trout feed on zooplankton and other microscopic food organisms until they are large enough to intercept freedrifting aquatic insects, such as midge larvae and mayfly nymphs.

Originally native to the Pacific Northwest, they now inhabit streams and lakes in nearly 50 countries and are found in every continent, with the exception of Antarctica. Their quick, strong surges of power make them unlike any other member of the trout family, and for that reason, fly fishers have a special fondness for them. After the initial hookup, a rainbow typically jumps several times, attempting to dislodge the fly from its jaw. Even after being persuaded close to the net, it never gives up, frequently busting fine tippets with one last powerful run.

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