K
Kyle
Guest
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I hope you and your loved ones have a safe and fun holiday.
I learned so much this spring, summer, and fall fishing on the
surface. I hit a bunch of backcountry wild brookie streams in PA, and of course a few in the SNP. This was the first year that I fished almost every weekend, and sometimes both days. So, while I still have much to learn about fishing on top (I mean, it's of course a life long process), I'm pretty happy with where I am, at least as far as wild brookie streams go (how hard can they be?).
What I want to learn, between now and that first warm, long weekend that my buddies and I will spend down in the SNP, is how to fish underneath.
I've always just given up and not bothered. If nothing's working on top, well, I can just sit in the sun and puff up, or go back to camp and drink, or go explore, etc.
I want to get beyond that, and my plan is to spend the next 4 months trying to get some reasonable, practical working knowledge of fishing underneath - with bead heads, I guess.
So, if anyone, or better yet, a bunch of people, want to write out a short paragraph of how to start - how to rig up, how it's different than surface fishing, common pitfalls and frustrations, that would be cool! Just enough info (and hopefully from different people) to get me in the water, I can spend the whole winter trying to actually figure it all out. I do have books, but there's obviously a lot richer info to be had here.
And has anyone had any of the 2003 Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, yet? I'm enjoying one right now.
Your friend,
Mr. Rapidan
Hopefully, come April, I can call myself Mr. Silver Beadhead.
I learned so much this spring, summer, and fall fishing on the
surface. I hit a bunch of backcountry wild brookie streams in PA, and of course a few in the SNP. This was the first year that I fished almost every weekend, and sometimes both days. So, while I still have much to learn about fishing on top (I mean, it's of course a life long process), I'm pretty happy with where I am, at least as far as wild brookie streams go (how hard can they be?).
What I want to learn, between now and that first warm, long weekend that my buddies and I will spend down in the SNP, is how to fish underneath.
I've always just given up and not bothered. If nothing's working on top, well, I can just sit in the sun and puff up, or go back to camp and drink, or go explore, etc.
I want to get beyond that, and my plan is to spend the next 4 months trying to get some reasonable, practical working knowledge of fishing underneath - with bead heads, I guess.
So, if anyone, or better yet, a bunch of people, want to write out a short paragraph of how to start - how to rig up, how it's different than surface fishing, common pitfalls and frustrations, that would be cool! Just enough info (and hopefully from different people) to get me in the water, I can spend the whole winter trying to actually figure it all out. I do have books, but there's obviously a lot richer info to be had here.
And has anyone had any of the 2003 Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, yet? I'm enjoying one right now.
Your friend,
Mr. Rapidan
Hopefully, come April, I can call myself Mr. Silver Beadhead.