How to?

[spinner]

Wisconsin in early September. Very skinny water. Near the head water. Water temperatures around 64. Bright sunny sky. Fishing from a high bank. No surface activity.

What would you use and how would you present it?

[CapeMayRay]

Looks like no one knows how to fish it but you. As for me I am a fish out of water when it comes to skinny water like that. I would say put on a baby bunker pattern and go for the biggest one in the stream.

[bigfish4me]

I an definitly not versed in buggywhipper fishing....even though a hatch is not under way i would think that terrestrials are around in September....so i would try an ant pattern. I like the look of the water on the left where it cuts in but looking close I think i can see 2 stones on the bottom that has me thinking shallow water....its hard to tell from a photo, if its not shallow then there is a nice little eddy that is worth a drift.....put it as close to the point as possible. If the water was shallow on the left....I would try and drift a bumble bee pattern, a few inches off the right side...first cast about mid way up...no takers go to the head of the pool on the second cast.....the bank is probably undercut so its a sweet little hole.

When i say i am not versed in fly fishing i mean it, I have caught 1 trout in my life on a fly.....it was however a size 10 bumble bee pattern i tied myself. In 7th grade i took a fly tying class at school as an elective class. I tied a bunch of flies in the classes and went out and bought a fly rod. I tied coachmens, streamers the bumblebee and a few nymphs. Trout season rolled around and being a spin fishermen there was quite a learning curve. I gave it a go, if i didnt catch a fish within an hour the long rod would go in the car and i would break out the ultralight. As the season got a little older i made up my mind that i was leaving the spinning rod home and it was all or nothing. I donated every fly i had to the trees, way up in the trees. I was down to my last fly...the bumble bee, ever feel good about a cast....like a golfer knowing he hit the sweetspot. I made a cast and thought to my self man that was pretty good i am getting the hang of this.....shlurp.....the fly disappeared and i was hooked up to my first and only trout on the fly. Of course it was a scrappy 10" stocker rainbow but the feeling of relief that i finally got that monkey off my back was great. I have not fly fished for trout since....only because i Love casting a spinner on ultra light tackle....stocked fish though there is a difference between those and natives....thats my story.

[gottaflylee]

Len, I have no idea but the 2 things I would try is a woolybuger, in black or olive and strip it back to me and a gold headed nenph (sp?) in brown because it is a sunny day and drift it down to the narrows.

Ok Len, tell us how we should realy do this...learn us...