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Ron Troversial Clay
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The most important retrieve of all to learn is what I call the "figure of eight and drop retrieve"
This is a variation of the standard figure or eight retrieve which you use on rivers where you keep all the line you have retrieved in your hand.
On still water you can let the line drop at your feet. If you are wading, something I hardly ever do these days, you will need a line tray. More stuff to buy.
The figure of eight retrieve makes it possible for you to pull back the line dead slow without any jerks. A deadly method when using nymphs or buzzers. Often the wind will perform the retrieve for you, especially in a cross wind, but you still need to keep in contact with your flies.
How to do a figure of weight rerieve is virtually impossible to describe in words an I am not going to try to describe it here.
The most useless retrieve of all is what I call the pull down drag. It don't work chaps, yet I stll see anglers doing this all day and not getting a pull. Short little jerks often work, especially with fish imitating flies.
Then we get an incredibly deadly retrieve that I call the "f..k about retrieve. This means combining all different types of retrieve in one, a few drag pulls, then let the fly stay still for a while, then fisgure of eight it, them a long slow pull and then a long fast pull.
It works, try it.
The last type of retrieve is what I call the troll retrieve because it enables you to pull a fly through the water fast without and jerks at all.
What you do is drag the line inwards with your left hand and at the same time push your rod hand forward. At the end of the pull in you bring your rod hand backwards maintaining the speed of the retrieve.
This is a deadly method with a lure, and we have all caught fish when we have been fishing for hours and we decide to wind in the fly and move on.
"Bang" we are in.
Another way is to attach a "Bung" to your leader, chuck out with a floating line down wind, fish a team of small nymphs or flavoured egg flies under the bung. When you line is out far enough, dragged by the wind, you can even put the rod in a rest with the reel ratchet on and go to sleep.
You don't even have to cast.
This is a variation of the standard figure or eight retrieve which you use on rivers where you keep all the line you have retrieved in your hand.
On still water you can let the line drop at your feet. If you are wading, something I hardly ever do these days, you will need a line tray. More stuff to buy.
The figure of eight retrieve makes it possible for you to pull back the line dead slow without any jerks. A deadly method when using nymphs or buzzers. Often the wind will perform the retrieve for you, especially in a cross wind, but you still need to keep in contact with your flies.
How to do a figure of weight rerieve is virtually impossible to describe in words an I am not going to try to describe it here.
The most useless retrieve of all is what I call the pull down drag. It don't work chaps, yet I stll see anglers doing this all day and not getting a pull. Short little jerks often work, especially with fish imitating flies.
Then we get an incredibly deadly retrieve that I call the "f..k about retrieve. This means combining all different types of retrieve in one, a few drag pulls, then let the fly stay still for a while, then fisgure of eight it, them a long slow pull and then a long fast pull.
It works, try it.
The last type of retrieve is what I call the troll retrieve because it enables you to pull a fly through the water fast without and jerks at all.
What you do is drag the line inwards with your left hand and at the same time push your rod hand forward. At the end of the pull in you bring your rod hand backwards maintaining the speed of the retrieve.
This is a deadly method with a lure, and we have all caught fish when we have been fishing for hours and we decide to wind in the fly and move on.
"Bang" we are in.
Another way is to attach a "Bung" to your leader, chuck out with a floating line down wind, fish a team of small nymphs or flavoured egg flies under the bung. When you line is out far enough, dragged by the wind, you can even put the rod in a rest with the reel ratchet on and go to sleep.
You don't even have to cast.