I’m headed up to Brevard in a couple weeks and I don’t get anywhere close to Pisgah without getting in the river. Has anyone been up that way recently? Reports?
On a side note, I don’t have a ton of experience with droppers. They seem to be more of a pain in the butt vs. productive which obviously means I’m not doing something right. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Tight lines -
Haven’t been up there lately so I can’t tell you how it’s fishing. However, 12 to 20 inches of tippet and a hares ear or prince nymph tied off the eye of the dry gets a lot of fish that won’t rise. You may have to vary the length of tippet depending on the flow or water depth so the dropper has a chance to get down in the water column.
“The good fisherman is surprised when he doesn’t catch fish: I am just the other way around.”
Gene Hill, Passing a Good Time.
I have found that I have the best success on the “D” doing something other than what everybody else is doing because those fish see pressure every single day. I think people see other people doing something, especially by the hatchery, and that’s how everybody else does it. I’m amazed to watch dudes splash around in the middle of the river this time of year in their full fly uniform, running nymphs down the same run over, and over, and over, and over… Like maybe they didn’t see my fly the first 12 times.
Be willing to be flexible with method of fishing, time, etc. What does this mean? Fish at dawn, day, dusk? Dry fly vs nymph? Go experiment.
SC207 is right on by the way. More to it than just throwing that rig in the water though…
Give the guys at Hunter Banks a call in Asheville, will def be able to point you in the right direction, if you need someone with experience in tying some trout flies and Scotty doesn’t have them at Low County fly, give me a yell I can probably get some in your hands for a reasonable price, if you can’t find them before
Bragging may not bring happiness,
but no man having caught a large fish,
goes home through the alley.
-Anonymous
Stop by and see Walker or Keving at DRO. Great guys and they will hook you up. I would think this time of year you could get off one of the feeder creeks and have pretty good sucess.
That place is awesome, enjoy.
chris.
1802 Action Craft. 115 yamaha.
Stop by DRO and get a few pink squirmy wormys fish under a large yellow stimulator dry fly as an indicator, fish Looking Glass, Avery, or upper Davidson and you will have a 20+ fish day. (Early and late in the day). The Big D during the day will be full of tubers. The hatchery section early and late, use inch worms, black ants or beetles up under bank with a size 22 black zebra midge. Good Luck!
Thanks for the ■■■■■■■■ everyone. I’m pretty much set at this point and will give the recommended droppers an honest shot. My plan is to hit it Saturday early, exit to Ashville for the day, and back in the water at dusk. Standby for report. Tight lines -
Fish to live.
my 2 cents:
this is warm low water season, so hit the river as early as you can. i’ve been there a couple of times in the past month and the fishing really shuts down around 10 or 11.
for the dry, i’d throw a small yellow sally, stimulator, or terrestrial (cricket or grasshopper. as for the dropper, i would use something small that imitates either a midge or a baetis. size 18 or 20 copper john, pheasant tail, wd40, etc.
keep your casting swing slow and your loops open and it should minimize tangling.