Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Secret Flies and Shit

I have heard nothing but a buzz about this from some locals for the past couple of years and it's getting old, if you have a secret keep it. Yea I know some of you will snicker at this and say under your breath that Hepner has secrets and will not give them up, well your right I do not give them to everyone, I give some of them to people who I trust and consider good fishing partners. No I will not give any or very little info to people who just take info. and patterns and do nothing but show everyone and give nothing in return to our sport, these guys are takers. Some of this stuff has taken 37 years to understand and that it some times means that you stop fishing and just watch or fish with someone who you can take turns fishing to a specific fish and working on why and how to catch the dam thing. I'm not really sure that it's the pattern, well maybe a little, if it's the correct size and close to the correct color and most importantly if it drifts correctly maybe the trout will take it. I see guys all the time who can't cast worth a shit and really never consider how the fly will drift to the fish change flies till they find the secret fly, that's not what you need you need some work on presentation, just get the fly close and maybe if you don't line the fish he might take. I see so many guys with a straight upstream cast and they wonder why the fish refuse their offering, maybe they see your leader or maybe your cast lander like a branch hitting the surface, think softer landing and maybe a down or across presentation and maybe you'll see better results.
 Ask Sherwin how many time we fished together and talked all the time about trout behavior and fly presentations and maybe you'll understand how much real work goes into this secret fly shit. For the guys who don't understand this and want a magic fly, call Orvis, how that's, oh right you want it free!
  As a good example why will the Rainbows in the Missouri River take a #20 secret Baetis emerger during a #24 Pseudo full blow hatch, ever consider that a good float in to them might just make them eat?

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