You can tell what a fish is eating simply by the way it rises! 🦟💥🐟
The rings a fish creates when it rises to eat a dry fly is called a rise form.
Trout create different rise forms when they’re eating a specific type of bug (emergers or adults).
A few different aquatic insects go through a lifecycle where, as they change from a nymph to an adult, they enter a phase called the “emerger.”
When they’re emergers, they get trapped in the surface film, instead of on the surface.
When they’re an adult, or dun, they ride on the surface.
After adults mate, they die and “spin” back to the water in the stage called the “spinner.”
When fish are eating emergers, they make a soft, subtle rise, and you’ll usually only see their back and dorsal fin break the surface.
They’ll make this same rise form while eating cripples and spinners, too.
When they’re eating duns, you’ll see a splashier, louder rise, or you’ll see the fish’s nose break the surface.
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This is awesome info for a beginner like myself! Most times I see fish rise, I throw a dry. Really good knowledge to have especially this time of year where temps are fluctuating so much.
Thanks G. I was out last week. Definitely the ermerger ripples. I was throwing a dry fly. Makes sense why I wasn’t getting hit at all
It must be the first time you wore that hat
This channel is AMAZING for beginners!
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If you see a slashing rise, the trout is trying to drown an insect. Cast to the ring and let your fly sit. The trout will return to slurp up the drowned bug and get your fly instead.
I had no idea, thank you for this info! Love your channel!
I don’t understand surface film. How can there be surface film on running water?
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The fish around my house will jump out of the water just for a bug😂
i need to get out more
There's something about these videos thats so sane, and based on such true understanding, that even if I never picked up a fly rod, I'd find them beneficial and therapeutic in some sublime way.
The hat is awesome!
My grandfather figure taught me how to fly fish and tie flies when I was a little kid. He taught me to tie catskill style dry flies, all the hatches that occur throughout the course of the season. He died when I was 17, but almost 20 years later I still fly fish avidly, and I’ll tell you what, watching a trout rise to take your fly off the top of the water and setting that hook is like hitting a home run in baseball or a hole in one in golf. Very exciting.
So what are they feeding on when they fly a foot out of the water. Serious question.
I was taught that a splashy porpoising rise indicated that they were chasing emergers. This makes sense though. Slashing porpoising rises are my favorite though. Love to see a fish move to chase a big fly like a green drake or an iso
Generally true.
But I've seen different sized fish do different 'rises' to the same food source.
But it's a good rule of thumb.
Is it bad I look at this video as quality jerk-off material?! Lol
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Good tip!
Best fly fishing channel i've found, thank you.
I once saw trout gulping foam just downstream from the sewage treatment plant. They were the biggest trout I’ve ever seen. It frightened me. Still have bad dreams.
Great stuff
Or ya know the ones that go free Willy to a dry
Thats the most impractical tip I have ever heard!
Both rise forms cause beaver fever!
Information gold. Thx