How To Fish Stillwaters  April 19th, 2004   Float Tube Magic
Float Tube Fly Fishing Strategies, Part 7  By Patricia C.
Pothier  Playing, Landing and Releasing Fish  What a wonderful
feeling when a big fish takes your fly. In dry fly fishing, you
can see when you have a strike as a fish takes your fly from the
water surface, but in fishing with sinking lines you may not
have any visual and little or no tactile warning. Since trout
often take the fly softly and so far away from your rod, the
first sign that you have a strike is a strong pull on your line
as a trout either dives deep, takes off at a run across the lake
or leaps into the air trying to throw the hook from its mouth.
Since fish occasionally hit at the end of a long cast, you may
wonder if a rising fish in the distance is really yours. At any
sign of a fish on your line, lift the rod tip up to set the hook
and then raise it high overhead to keep pressure off the leader.
Through this action you can avoid having your leader broken by
the strain of fig