so we're in a new river today i purposely didn't ask brady where the fish are going to be i wanted
to see what we can find out so we're at a nice good flowing riffle here i don't know how deep it
is because there's a lot of glare on the water the lighting is really bad today very very hazy and
and glary so i don't know how deep it is the fish are generally going to be in deeper pockets so i'm
going to assume that there's a deep pocket below this riffle and then when it flattens out and i'm
just going to work through it first with a mouse because we don't see any fish rising you know on
most rivers i would fish a streamer probably in water like this in unknown water but here we
know a mouse will work and it's a good searching pattern and you can actually see the fish roll
on it when they're interested so we'll start with a mouse and then we'll take it from there
and i'm going to start right here from shore the fish could be in shallow i don't want to
spook them i don't even know how deep it is out there so i'll gradually wade out
see how deep it gets see if i can find a little bit deeper spot where the trout might be holding
once i get closer to those deeper spots i should be able to spot them but we'll see
so it's one thing to know how to read water but it's another thing to temper that knowledge
with local knowledge okay so normally if i was fishing a trout stream i would have expected
the fish to be lying up against those alders there's protection from eagles and ospreys
the foam line is going along there i know food's drifting there the current's a little slower it's
nice and comfortable but all the hits i've gotten have been out in this heavier water
just below where i'm standing and we found that here during our week in labrador that the fish
tend to be in the heavier water or just on the edges of the heavier water
whereas if i were brown trout fishing or rainbow trout fishing i might uh i might
spend a lot more time over against those alders i haven't had a single fish tank along the alders
so i have this beautiful pool in front of me it's the deepest one we've seen so far
and caught a fish on a mouse but all the way through the rest of it
no mouse eaters so i've gone to a streamer it's just the water just looks too good it can't only
have one trout in it and there are some landlocked salmon in here so streamer is a good idea
we walked through a pretty wide expanse of riffle that only had some little trout in it and now
we've gotten to another another deep trench looks like it's deep enough for trout hard to tell
because the light is so bad it's just the way the water looks it looks a little deeper and slower
so we're going to see if there's any trout in here and
i've gone back to the mouse fly because it's a great searching fly here in labrador
oh that is a fat fish ah what a pretty fish
and she's off