By the time I quit shaking they were on the feed again. I've spooked brook trout, and some nice ones, that were back in their lane within minutes. I think there's a hierarchy of nervousness among fish besides stocked or wild. How long would you wait? That day we eventually gave up. How long do you give them then? I don't have a definitive answer, but I do like to see them rising with confidence before I cast.

It may take 10 or 15 minutes for them to start to rise again. At first tentatively, then with more confidence. Now do you stand as still as you can and wait, or give up on these fish? If you are still, and quiet, the fish will start to rise again.

To move on you must wade through the pool. You can't get out to either side, and wading back down is bordering on dangerous. Now that little pool has only one way in. The fish didn't flee, they just dropped back and inch or two and stopped rising. Lower down the same river, with another friend, we spotted two trout holding station together taking it in turns to rise to the stream of olives. I find it will take an hour or more for the pool to recover from this.īy far the worst though are the fish that just drop back slightly from their feeding station. Bow waves were going every which way across the water.

the two fish turned and sped through the whole pool spooking every trout for about 100 yards. I said, 'Drop your line behind you, and freeze.' He made another false cast. If you are careful you can take up to 3 fish from this pool before they all wise up.Īs he started to lengthen line I saw two fish turn and move down stream. Fish were rising sporadically all the way up the pool. Having taken one from the plunge pool I set him up at the bottom of the long pool, and climbed up the hill a little way to spot for him. There are often fish in the plunge below this pool so it is good to wade into that from the thin water below, working upstream as you go. About 1/2 mile up stream from the place we parked the river opens out into a long flat pool. Aire one evening after the Saturday at the CLA Game Fair.

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