Often in fly fishing we associate good presentations solely with dry fly fishing. And while that’s important, it’s just as important to focus on a good presentation for subsurface flies.
That fact was on full display last week.
The river was a bit high and off-color, a result of extra water flowing from the dam to make room for runoff. I tied on a big hopper, with a sizable crawdad nymph beneath it. My first few drifts were right where I expected trout to be—on the seam, in deeper water.
I kept fishing that water without luck until, on a whim, I threw a long cast upstream to some shallower riffles. My fly landed perfectly, the nymph dropped into the riffle…
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