Fly Anglers Sixth Sense, Fact or Fiction?

Fly Anglers Sixth Sense, Fact or Fiction?

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By Kent Klewein
Do you ever feel like you’ve got a sixth sense working for you when you’re out fly fishing?
I’m talking about an extra sense that seems to give you the power and clarity to sense future fishing success moments before it happens. It doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, it’s one of the sweetest feelings I think a fly angler can witness; calling his/her fish before the cast. You’ve just rounded a bend when your eyes are immediately drawn to a perfect looking stretch of water. It’s a wide and fast riffle a little to shallow to hold fish, but there’s a fallen tree that’s condensing all the current into a tight six foot wide flow. Even better, that condensed current is flowing right over a drop-off, into a deep blue pool. A light bulb in your head goes off as your sixth sense kicks in, and you’re certain when your fly hits the water it will only be a few seconds until a trout rises to your fly. All you have to do is call your shot and make a good cast.
Sure enough, you make a spot on cast, and success arrives like clockwork. The surreal sound of a cork being pulled from a whiskey bottle, signals to you a trout has sucked in your fly, and you set the hook, and shout "Man, I love that sound". I bet there’s a lot of guides out there that feel the same way when they call a take for a client during the drift, "get ready, you should get a bite right…….now, bam". When your client turns to you and asks how you did that, just smile and say it’s your sixth sense.
I’m sure there’s anglers out there that would argue this sixth sense is fictional.

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November 22, 2017 at 05:01AM