Marble Trout Streamers

They are also incredibly easy to troll using a variety of setups.

Marble trout streamers.

South wales based angler ceri thomas looks at unconventional tactics for uk rivers and discusses how he employs streamer fishing tactics on flowing water for wild trout. Maybe my new skagit head will help with some of the casting issues. Of course i had heard stories of jim sorting through pounds of marabou pounds looking for just the perfect feathers for his flies. In the winter of 10 11 a bunch of streamer heads started a fly swap to honor jim s contribution fo the craft of streamer flies and my contribution was the yellow marabou special.

Full film official selection rise fly fishing film festival 2018 duration. Your streamer must move through the water with an attitude that says come and get me along with the right technique you need to find a river system where trout feed on a forage base of large food items such as sculpins leeches crayfish and juvenile trout suckers and whitefish. It is in the morning hours when the marble trout are feeding heavily on smaller fish sometimes measuring up to half of their own size. Streamers for big trout how to duration.

I caught marble trout rainbow trout but the winner of the day was a beautiful brown trout. Slovenia fly fishing guide service offers professionally guided marble trout tours in slovenia. Same size rainbow will give you 10 times the fight than a marble. The idea of tossing a streamer or lure on a uk river is a bit repellent to our cultured history of upstream dry fly fishing manicured chalk stream banks and so on.

Some articulated streamers i tied last year i rely like the way they move but holy shit they hold lots of water. I had also more bites without a catch but it didn t bothered me because that s fishing. Weren t funny at all casting these flies and i use a 13 feet 10 weight two handed rod and a scandi shooting head. Stocked trout fresh from the hatchery might go for powerbait but consistently catching finicky trophy trout demands a different approach.

Looking for marble trout. Marble trout salmo marmoratus native to adriatic basin can only be found in rivers flowing into adriatics known for its marbled pattern also referred to as adriatic river ghost is considered the pride and symbol of slovenian fly fishing. Let s say it is interesting because a marble trout can be a bastard of a fish. Most of the people coming here didn t even see the size of streamers marbles like let alone cast with one.

If you dedicate your fishing day for a big marble only it can be boring as hell. Nothing mimics food that big predatory trout feed on better than streamer flies tied with natural hair fibers and a bit of flash. It soon became clear that my optimism had good foundations. High milky rivers and the use of big streamers when the sun comes up behind the mountain peaks are possibly the best conditions for that.