Marble Trout Streamers

Stocked trout fresh from the hatchery might go for powerbait but consistently catching finicky trophy trout demands a different approach.

Marble trout streamers.

Streamers for big trout how to duration. Full film official selection rise fly fishing film festival 2018 duration. Vlog12 the fly fishing vlog. Looking for marble trout.

South wales based angler ceri thomas looks at unconventional tactics for uk rivers and discusses how he employs streamer fishing tactics on flowing water for wild trout. Let s say it is interesting because a marble trout can be a bastard of a fish. The fishes were very active on my streamers despite turbid water. The idea of tossing a streamer or lure on a uk river is a bit repellent to our cultured history of upstream dry fly fishing manicured chalk stream banks and so on.

If you dedicate your fishing day for a big marble only it can be boring as hell. Slovenia fly fishing guide service offers professionally guided marble trout tours in slovenia. Same size rainbow will give you 10 times the fight than a marble. They are also incredibly easy to troll using a variety of setups.

I caught marble trout rainbow trout but the winner of the day was a beautiful brown trout. In the winter of 10 11 a bunch of streamer heads started a fly swap to honor jim s contribution fo the craft of streamer flies and my contribution was the yellow marabou special. Most of the people coming here didn t even see the size of streamers marbles like let alone cast with one. The end of summer is the best time to catch big marble trout.

It soon became clear that my optimism had good foundations. I had also more bites without a catch but it didn t bothered me because that s fishing. Some articulated streamers i tied last year i rely like the way they move but holy shit they hold lots of water. High milky rivers and the use of big streamers when the sun comes up behind the mountain peaks are possibly the best conditions for that.

It is in the morning hours when the marble trout are feeding heavily on smaller fish sometimes measuring up to half of their own size. Marble trout salmo marmoratus native to adriatic basin can only be found in rivers flowing into adriatics known for its marbled pattern also referred to as adriatic river ghost is considered the pride and symbol of slovenian fly fishing. Of course i had heard stories of jim sorting through pounds of marabou pounds looking for just the perfect feathers for his flies. Your streamer must move through the water with an attitude that says come and get me along with the right technique you need to find a river system where trout feed on a forage base of large food items such as sculpins leeches crayfish and juvenile trout suckers and whitefish.