Salmon are great at 'silently & invisibly' coming for a look so maintain movement in your fly by carefully drawing in line smoothly & consistency as you're hand lining in your running line. You want to dead drift the fly along the bottom. Egg Sucking Leech Some Salmon Love These Are popular flies in the salmon . The most common technique is to simply swing your wet nymph across the current and let it swing below you and down to the fish. Fly Fishing for Salmon: A Beginner's Guide It's a way of life. Kings want a long, slow, steady swing. In this video, Bill Spicer is with John V. If it's darker water, use a darker fly and vice versa. Fly Fishing for Salmon: A Beginner's Guide Intended for the distant seem, the fly instead landed near the bone of my finger. As one of the oldest forms of angling, what attracts many fishing enthusiasts to this technique is the tradition, enthusiasm, and pure challenge surrounding it. Hex Nymph for Salmon GUIDE TIP: Visit a local fly shop to find out what the salmon is hitting. 02:53 - Peter Charles was on the podcast in episode 15 here and talked about fishing the Grand River. Treat every swing of the fly with suspicion and as if a big brute of a fish is 'shadowing' your fly as it finally swings in downstream of you. This is the moment of truth - also for the fly fishermen, because a "fresh" salmon that just entered the river is more likely to take a fly. We discover how he found himself producing a number of full-length fishing movies focused on conservation, warm water, cold water - all forms of different species. Tip #10, executed to perfection. How to Swing Wet Flies - YouTube Alaska receives returns of five species of Pacific salmon Chinook, sockeye, coho, chum and pink and all five are available to fly anglers at points along the Southcentral road system. Properly Fishing A Salmon Fly They will usually have all the flies in stock that are native to the area. The Broadside Presentation. King Salmon are the largest of the Pacific salmon, averaging 20-35 pounds, with the world record coming in at an astounding 97.4 pounds. Reel. This gives you the line control for swinging streamers or drifting flies and the backbone to fight some of these bigger fish. Aggressive fish may be enticed by a faster moving fly, while less aggressive fish may require a slower swung fly which hangs in their face. When swinging flies (for any species), we start at the head of a run, stepping downstream between casts until reaching the tail-out.