Marble Trout Streamers

Let s say it is interesting because a marble trout can be a bastard of a fish.

Marble trout streamers.

Marble trout salmo marmoratus native to adriatic basin can only be found in rivers flowing into adriatics known for its marbled pattern also referred to as adriatic river ghost is considered the pride and symbol of slovenian fly fishing. It soon became clear that my optimism had good foundations. Looking for marble trout. Of course i had heard stories of jim sorting through pounds of marabou pounds looking for just the perfect feathers for his flies.

Full film official selection rise fly fishing film festival 2018 duration. South wales based angler ceri thomas looks at unconventional tactics for uk rivers and discusses how he employs streamer fishing tactics on flowing water for wild trout. I caught marble trout rainbow trout but the winner of the day was a beautiful brown trout. Some articulated streamers i tied last year i rely like the way they move but holy shit they hold lots of water.

If you dedicate your fishing day for a big marble only it can be boring as hell. The fishes were very active on my streamers despite turbid water. It is in the morning hours when the marble trout are feeding heavily on smaller fish sometimes measuring up to half of their own size. Nothing mimics food that big predatory trout feed on better than streamer flies tied with natural hair fibers and a bit of flash.

They are also incredibly easy to troll using a variety of setups. Streamers for big trout how to duration. The end of summer is the best time to catch big marble trout. In the winter of 10 11 a bunch of streamer heads started a fly swap to honor jim s contribution fo the craft of streamer flies and my contribution was the yellow marabou special.

Slovenia fly fishing guide service offers professionally guided marble trout tours in slovenia. Most of the people coming here didn t even see the size of streamers marbles like let alone cast with one. Weren t funny at all casting these flies and i use a 13 feet 10 weight two handed rod and a scandi shooting head. Same size rainbow will give you 10 times the fight than a marble.

Maybe my new skagit head will help with some of the casting issues. Stocked trout fresh from the hatchery might go for powerbait but consistently catching finicky trophy trout demands a different approach. Vlog12 the fly fishing vlog. Your streamer must move through the water with an attitude that says come and get me along with the right technique you need to find a river system where trout feed on a forage base of large food items such as sculpins leeches crayfish and juvenile trout suckers and whitefish.