We seldom consider fishing streamers in mountain trout streams, but here is a technique that is very successful for me on the mountain streams as well as in our larger trout streams in the conditions we have now. I call it BOUNCE RETRIEVE. Wading upstream and casting straight upstream or up and across stream at a 20 degree angle I allow my streamer to sink deeply. Then I lift the fly rod and get tight to the streamer with my line hand. As the current pushes the streamer back downstream I lift the fly rod 45 degrees over the stream which cause my streamer to swim up through the current just like a natural minnow. Keeping a tight line on the fly with my line hand, I continue this lifting and dropping rod motion to swim the fly all the way throughout the pools. This is actually easier than nymph fishing because you will feel these strikes.
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