different techniques that have induced a take.

[anthony1carr]

Please can people post any techniques they have used that have induced a take from a salmon.

Here are mine:-

Experimenting one day I cast a wet fly upstream, created a downstream belly, then retrieved the fly at speed with a tipping action of the rod. A fish swirled at the fly on the dangle. I cast to where the fish swirled with a normal cast, but nothing happened. I cast upstream again created the belly and retrieved as before. The same fish took the fly. 14lb cock fish. ;D

I used an Ally shrimp fly. I dropped the fly into the current in front of me. Then I made a series of continous upstream mends, only letting out line when the line settled on the water. A fish took about half way down the pool.

I have also had great success slowly retrieving shrimp flies on the swing. I squeez the line between my right hand fingers and pull the line slowly with my left hand.This produces a sort of jerking slow motion.I think I have caught most of my fish using this method.

[madkeen]

Here is mine fishing on the tummel last year fished all day without seeing a fish ,seen a fish head and tail at the bottom of the run fished all the way down to it without a sniff thought bloody ignorant fish, started to reel in the line very fast fish slammed into the fly about 10 ft from me 5lb grilse.
Alan

[Fruin]

Madkeen,

Experienced something very similar on the Leven a few weeks ago, but my fish never stuck

[wilson]

While fishing the Bonaventure in Gaspe a few years ago I had the opportunity to sight fish for two fish holding 20 feet deep in a tailout. The technique used to induce the take was to cast a white muddler at a slight upstream angle, let the fly dead drift down towards the fish, and sweep trip the tip straight downstream forming a HUGE belly making the fly swim away perpendicular to them.

It's actually a common technique in early June there when the water is cold and the fish are fresh. Make the fly move fast and it triggers the killer instinct in them more than just a swinging fly. I had another very nice Bonnie fish on this year, same fly, same presentation.

[macsalmo]

When we fished the Alness a few weeks ago we found that the fish liked the fly moving fast. I had one winding in (very fast)

One of my friends found that if he fished a floating line with a large tube (any colour) in the deeper slower holding pools and stripped it back in fast, the fish went crazy for it He caught about 5 doing that but must of lost and moved over a dozen more.
Not my cup of tea, although it saved him many a blank.


Macsalmo

[rennie]

Last cast in the tail of a pool put your rod over your shoulder turn around and wade out of the pool pretty smart,make sure your line can run off your reel freely coz Salmon and Sea Trout hit your fly pretty hard this way,doesn't always work but when it does it puts a big smile on your face. Pedro.

[wilson]

There is another technique that's used in Gaspe later in the year that is odd but I hear works well. It goes something like cast a small hitched double quartering upstream and strip it back as fast as you can. Small doubles work well there any time, just little black things or Rat's, but I've haven't heard of anyone fishing like this until a few years ago. It's worth a shot if the water is low and the fish are dour.

-Chris

[juniorspey]

I've had a 12lb springer on the moriston that took halfway through a snake roll!!! the fly was skimming on top of the water!!!
I've also had a couple of good fish by twiching the line with the index finger of the hand that is holding the rod when the line is right on the dangle!!
but one of the best ways i have found is gently lift the rod tip up and down as the fly fishes round, this has accounted for about 15 of my salomn this season!!
tight lines

Blair

[exerod]

Here’s a couple that have worked for me on small rivers in some pools.

The first is an exaggerated form of the ‘Beauly belly’ or whatever it is called in your neck of the woods.
This works best with a sinker. Find a pool with a narrow fast run in and slack water or better still a back eddy on the far side of the run in. Wade out to the edge of the current and strip off 10 or 15 yards of line, chuck the fly and a couple of yards of line into the slack/back eddy and then work the rest of the stripped line into the current. With luck the fly will hang around in the back eddy while the line sinks and forms a very sharp downstream belly. When all the slack is taken up by the current the fly will be snatched out into the flow and run fast straight downstream. As the belly straightens the fly will turn round sharply to face upstream just on the edge of the main current. The action of the fly is very similar to a small trout or parr which dashes downstream and swings out of the current looking for shelter. Salmon will turn and chase the fly downstream as it passes them and take it very hard as it turns round.

The second one works occasionally in pools with the main flow hard against the bank you are fishing from. When the fly comes round to the dangle in the fast current instead hand lining to induce a fish to take let some line out. This will cause the fly which has swum across the river into the fast water to suddenly falter and drop back, when the slack is taken up there will (sometimes!) be a salmon on the end, usually with the fly well back in the mouth. Again this method mimics the action of a small fish swimming across the current, upon reaching the main flow they usually drop back rather than shooting upstream which is what happens with hand lining.

Andy