Phil Rowley stopped by for clinic on how to fish chironomids effectively on lakes. Learn tactics, learn about bugs and a few other fly fishing stillwater strategies with chironomid patterns.
Good stuff! Thanks Phil and Fly Fish Food. Good job on the video to going back and forth between Phil and the presentation. Hope to see more of these kind of learning presentations from you guys.
I don't have any stillwater trout anywhere near me except for a few put and take lakes, yet this really kept my interest. He did a good job explaining things yet keeping the presentation moving.
I fish a lake in NW Utah using those bobber indicators usually orange in color and the trout will occasionally violently take the indicator typically in October and November. On the upwind side of the lake there are Manzanita trees that produce a round, orangish fruit that floats like a cork. I’ve always wondered if trout are omnivorous and will eat these fruit. Yes, I’ve had my guy tie me up a few....we call them fruit flies.
Phil...Rowley's are rare. I have same last name. Always a pleasure / interest to discover another Rowley. I'm in California, Eastern Sierra mountain range where I fish. My lineage is out of Ft. Wayne Indiana then to California. Fly fishing just one of many hobbies. Where do you live?
Hi Phil. Long time fan of your many different ways of getting info to fly fishers. I noticed you spoke very quickly of "Loch Style" fishing in this presentation. I have been delving deeply into this method the last two years. I have had a great time doing it but it is certainly challenging, maybe the most challenging method of catching fish I've embarked on in my 30 years of fly fishing due to the specialized boat set up with a drogue, need for various fly lines, long leaders, etc. Can I ask what your general opinion of the method is, and do you feel it superior/inferior to double anchored position fishing more common to the States/Canada? Thanks!
