I only fly fish (although my daughter's first pink was on a croc) and although I have stopped reporting, I have not been skunked on the Fraser yet, although I have had 1 day with only 1 fish. I can honestly say not one of the pinks I have caught is flossed. Every one is caught on the retrieve, stripped straight back up the river, and usually within the last few meters. I have never hooked a pink on the drift or the swing in the Fraser. I have also had great days with numerous fish but that might be 5 fish in an hour. To catch one fish every 2 minutes you would not be fighting the fish for more than 1 minute and I have not had a fish yet come to hand so quickly. These have been some strong fighting pinks (many over 7 pounds). I can see 30 "bites" in an hour possible (had a similar experience years ago in the Charlottes fly fishing the salt chuck for pink for the first time), but I was missing the majority of the strikes due to inexperience. However, fishing the Fraser, with the visibility so low, I find it hard to believe that you would get a bite on every cast (and that would be necessary to achieve those numbers) especially when I found that a slow retrieve produced more hits and a slow retrieve means fewer casts in an hour. This sounds like an exaggeration, (but what fish story isn't?), that being said, I have seen my flies out perform the gear around me on every outing except my last when two guys in a boat beside me hooked 4 fish on small pink spin-n-glo's in the time I hooked 1 (about an hour). That said, once I found out how they were fishing them (very slowly and near the bottom) and adjusted my methods (rapid sinking line and ultra slow retrieve) my own pace picked up after they left.
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Topic: Fraser Tidal - Fly Fishing Pinks (Read 10998 times)