Are some trout just plain stupid?
You know, I get so irritated when fish don't play the game according to the rules! I was fishing a egg sucking leech on the weekend, and my logic tells me that a leech sucking on a egg is going to be doing this at it's leisure, and certainly not in hot pursuit of the egg! Have any of you ever seen an egg trying to escape from a predator? My point exactly! So, applying this train of thought made me opt for the dead slow approach, right on the bottom. For more than an hour I persisted with not so much as a bump. In frustration, I hastened to retrieve my fly for the inevitable fly change. Lo and behold, a fish grabbed it! Two casts later I was into another lively trout on a quicker retrieve. My conclusion was that the fly was not really imitating a leech sucking on a egg at all, or at least the trout did not think so! All I was doing with the quicker retrieve was basically transform the fly into an attractor of sorts. Now I ask you with tears in my eyes, what is the point of going to such great pains to imitate a natural so faithfully, and fishing it the way that we know the natural would perform, if the fish are going to be so damn stupid as to mistake it for something else at the end of the day?
Last edited by Chris Shelton; 12-06-07 at 09:03 AM.
"Innocence is a wild trout. But we humans, being complicated, have to pursue innocence in complex ways" - Datus Proper
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