Fish Streamers in Fast Water and Seal the Deal

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Have you ever had a day of streamer fishing when the fish just wouldn’t commit?
I had the mother of those days recently. I was fishing streamers from the boat and was literally getting follows every other cast. That’s great, but the fish just wouldn’t eat the fly. They would charge, swirl, nip and blow up all over it but never eat it. It was frustrating to say the least.
I changed patterns and got the same result. After the twentieth nice brown took a pass, I added a Wooly Bugger as a dropper. No dice. The fish would swim right past the Bugger to ogle the streamer. I switched up my retrieve, all the stuff you should try, and nothing worked. Until I changed the water I was fishing.
I started targeting the fastest water I thought could hold fish and, sure enough, things turned around. I did not slow down my retrieve and, because

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November 2, 2017 at 05:08AM