So, which do you prefer?
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Small Stream Poll
If you have not done so already, please vote in the poll (on the right side of the page) on your favorite water type in a small streams. Most small streams are largely pocket water with the occasional large pool to break the pattern. Pocket water is probably my favorite type of fishing, but pools provide special opportunities as well. Sometimes the difference between the two can be blurred. On really small streams, the pools may be the size of most small pockets on a larger river. Still, the pools generally require a more stealthy approach than the pocket water regardless of size. Normally my preference is pocket water, but some days I just want to fish pools and hustle past all the prime pockets in the stream...really, it is all fun...
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I never do well in the big glassy pools on the truckee-- it would require me to re-rig my heavily weighted nymph rig with a tiny leader and tiny dry flies with droppers.
ReplyDeleteI love fishing the big fast pools though
that picture with the bridge intimidates me-- I suck at casting dries especially when theres a lot of brush around
Hello,my name is Fernando from Spain. Your blog is very good, but sometimes I cannot understand with my poor English. Excuse me, but could you tell me what pocket water means?
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Fernando, pocket water is the faster water with large rocks breaking the flow. The pockets formed behind the rocks nearly always have a trout or two living in them. In the pictures above, the first picture is pocket water and the last picture is the bottom end of a calm pool...
ReplyDeleteyou're poll's missing an option... runs
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't fish that glassy pool either. but I'd rather fish a defined run leading into a pool than the pocket water.
Small streams...the runs are pocket water...generally that is... Good point though! With your dry fly skills you would kill 'em on that particular glassy pool. If you haven't fished there, we need to hit it up this fall...
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