What You Need To Know To Fish Tricos.


Where to go - Tricos are warm water flies and won't be found in the upper WB or above Shinhopple on the UEB. Look on the WB below the game lands and on the BR down to Stockport. Below Stockport you get into water that is too warm to fish.  

When do tricos hatch - The hatch begins in mid to late July and can continue into early fall. The flies hatch daily with the spinner fall occurring over the riffles in early morning as the fog burns off. Most of the spinners fall as the temperature climbs through the sixties.

When and where do the fish feed on them - As the spinners hit the water in numbers, the fish will appear in the slow water pools below the riffs, often forming a line of a dozen or more fish slowly moving upstream gulping the trico spinners.

How to fish a trico spinner fall - Try to cast downstream to the feeding fish. For a trout to take your fly, it has to be floating drag free and right at a fish. If your fly isn't eaten, slowly retrieve the line and if the fish are still feeding, cast again. 

Ways to ensure you will NOT catch fish feeding on tricos - Create a wake that passes over the fish. False cast over the fish. Pick up your cast near a feeding fish. Cast upstream over the fish's back.

Ways to improve your chances of hooking a fish on tricos - Plan your attack. A flyline floating over feeding fish will spook them. Cast at down stream fish first, and cast at fish across from you only after you have fished to all the fish downstream of them. When  casting across, start with the nearest fish and work your way out to avoid "lining" the closer fish.  Do not pick up a bad cast, let it drift into an area away from all feeding fish. When picking up any cast do so slowly so that the fish near it aren't spooked.

Once you've hooked one, your on your own, and as they like to say at West Branch Angler, Lotsa Luck! 

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