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Fly Fishing South Platte River - The Dream Stream Place: South Platte River, Colorado Rockies, United States Tags: fishing, dream stream |
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This stretch of river is known locally as the "Dream Stream". It's home to some very large brown trout and rainbow trout - up to 27 inches. I arrived at 8am and fished until 3:30pm.
I got lucky when I first arrived and immediatelly hooked two rainbows on a PMD with a tiny PMD emerger dropper. Then I switched to a streamer, didn't hook anything, switched back to a dry fly - a caddis pattern and didn't hook anything.
Then I switched to a wooly bugger and immedially caught a very nice 14 inch brown trout.
After getting a few nice nibbles, I figured it out. Cast the streamer across the river using a floating line. Let it drift down stream and swing back towards the bank you're on. As it starts it's swing, start stripping using a random pattern and strip quite quickly.
My streamer got chased many times, by some very big fish and I hooked a few more, but not 27 inchers.
I had loads of fun with my black wooly bugger and later I switched back to a Caddis. I let the caddis drift downstream as I walked along the bank and caught two more.
The best technique on this river is the following:
Find a meander where you are standing on the outside of the curve on the concave bank. If you're using a dry fly, cast the fly into the stream and let it drift back towards the bank. As it gets close to the bank, start walking downstream so your fly is slowly drifting along the undercut bank. If you don't get a hit in 10 minutes, you're using the wrong pattern or the fish aren't feeding on the surface.
If you're using a streamer, cast into the stream, let the streamer drift back towards the undercut bank and then strip quickly back towards yourself so you're stripping in the undercut. If you don't see something chasing your streamer in 10 minutes, change patterns.
With a streamer, I would cast my second cast into the stream and walk downstream with my floating line and then strip. That way I slowly moved downstream and I covered a lot of ground and saw a lot of fish chase my streamer and caught a few.
Have fun!
Mark.
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