by ninted » Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:06 pm
Hi Paul I used to do a lot of fly fishing for pollock and found a slow retrieve with an intermediate or slow sinking line to be more important than the fly itself. Once it gets dusk (especially in the summer) switch to a floating line and a floating fly, maybe with some lumanessence on it but keep the retrieve slow, and I mean a snails pace! This certainly worked well for me and I would let the line sink before even starting to retrieve, counting down to find a good consistent starting depth. For pollock in the day time, if you're fishing quite shallow water (10-25 ft) I find that if your not loosing the odd fly, you're not fishing deep enough. I also used a lot of medium sized salmon flies, including shrimp and tube type which worked really well, even for quite large pollock. Sometimes you might have a box of old salmon flies lying around and there might be one or two will turn out to be killers!
Tight lines!
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