Thread: streamers for bull gills

Originally Posted by doghead82

How do you fish them? Is it a floating fly or does it sink? I'm talking about the wooly bugger and black nose dice.

Streamers like the Wooly Bugger and Black Nosed Dace are subsurface flies. How to fish them depends on the water if there is current, structure, etc. but after casting to a target area (usually surface or subsurface structure of some sort) I basically just slowly line strip the fly back to me (retrieve) after the fly drops or after it naturally swings with the current if there is one.

A Mickey Finn is also an excellent choice. I like to fish it using a float and fly method.

old ship

Do I have the basic principle right?? It is the fly line that provides the weight not the fly, to "cast" with a fly rod, right???

You got it, mostlybrim37:D

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