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Why should an angler waste most of his time working an imitation streamer fly through four-mile-an-hour water where a true-to-life minnow simply cannot exist, as any dull fish would know? And yet, about 75 per cent of all stream fishing is done in exactly such unproductive water. The remedy is simple, too. Just let the lure sink below the swift water and into the quiet bottom water where it travel at a minnow's true rate of speed, around 2 miles an And thereby get down, too, to the big-fish, food-on-the-table of angling. Those anglers who do are deadly. Let's watch a couple of anglers, Jim and Paul, fish a pool. are using the same lure. They can cast equally well. Yet, in fishing our boulder-strewn pool carefully, Jim takes nothing. After resting the pool fifteen minutes, Paul casts to the same spots, apparently, but watch this. When his lure sweeps around the current on shady side of the first large boulder (get that, the shady side which fish prefer in bright sunlight), he raises his rod tip slightly pays out line so that his lure sinks close to the bottom. Outwardly, looks much the same as Jim's fishing. But yet, Paul's flashing lure follows the contour of the bottom, working more naturally. At times his lure flutters, then speeds up, and again almost stops in front of the next boulder where he holds it momentarily before letting it sweep on down the stream, threading through a half-dozen boulders and slipping into quiet pocket water behind each one.
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