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The adult dragonfly represents a steak meal to a trout. This fly is an
insect hunter and eats a lot of little bugs. The trout would have to eat allot
of those same insects as the adult dragonfly in order to match what the dragonfly
represents as food.
Jumping
Trout So why
spend all that energy in eating little bugs when all you have to do is be an expert
jumper and on target. Well, that
is what the brown and rainbow trout has mastered in Chile and Argentina. It took
me a while to figure out why the trout at Lago Yelcho in Chile liked to jump four
feet into the air. When I first fished Lion's Bay (a quiet and grassy bay), and
saw all the trout sailing through the air I thought this was going to be easy
fishing. We were going to be catching some real big rainbow's. Well, two years
later we finally got the right fly.
These
fish had developed the precise technique of stalking and
jumping for the adult dragon and they did not want to take
anything else. Their were so many dragons flying around
that the trout could not pass up the opportunity to stalk
a hovering dragon and shoot him down with that missile effect
of his whole body coming out of the water. We actually saw
a large fish following a slow moving dragon and when the
fly stopped and hovered, out shot a large rainbow trout
and the dragonfly was gone. We knew that we would have to
make up a good imitation of a full size dragon and that
is what we did.
Casting
and Presentation
Over
the years there has been a lot of different ties for the
adult dragonfly. Some had posed some problems with the casting,
as the wings tend to twirl your leader when the fly is in
the air and so you are constantly straightening out the
line.
The presentation is very important with
this fly. It is best if the water is still or even better
with a bit of a ripple so that the trout cannot get a good
look at the fly. In any case the fly must not be moved so
as to give it the hovering effect. In order for trout to
take a hovering dragon 3-4 feet above the water he must be
coming from down deep and when he is looking up he sees the
dragon as if above the water. If you move the fly this will
break the water surface causing the trout to know that the
dragon is not where it should be and thus he will not make
his run, but instead he might come up slowly to investigate
and that is what you do not want.
You can get very precise with presenting this fly to a hunting
trout and waiting for the take is longer than you would
expect, but it will happen and you better not be looking
at the beautiful scenery.
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