>>1511112>What is your cast doing when you try to go past 20 feet?I'm unable to keep the line in the air if I have too much line out, the end of travel of the fly line falls too low and starts hitting the vegetation and also hitting itself, causing tangles. 15ft is of line out is about the sweet spot, 20ft is prob max and it's sucky for me.
Anyways, took the fly fishing gear to my local urban bluegill lake today. Tied on size 24 midge flies and went to work. I am happy to say I caught several fish and had fun. The bluegill here hang out at the edge of the lake where there are many lilypads and other vegetation.
My dry flies don't float long enough even while using floatant, this totally messes up my chance to see a strike. On one occasion this pic.related bluegill took the fly on the surface and it was freaking awesome. The other times I had to visually be able to see the take underwater. Otherwise it was impossible to catch fish at long distances even if I could cast out to them. The way the bluegill are caught on this dry fly is that they need to be hook immediately on the take, or they'll just spit it out.
I also noticed that the line might be too heavy for this fly, it always fell first before the fly, making a splash ahead of the fly landing. This makes sense. Roll casting in general was super splashy and made a lot of ruckus but it was my best chance at casting further out.
