Free Write Fly Fishing

Braden Nicholson

8/20/20

 

One of my favorite things to do in the summer is go fly fishing. When I went to Yellowstone National Park, I was most excited about fly fishing because I’ve never caught a cutthroat trout before. I went with the Guide named Matt and he taught me how to nymphs for whitefish. I nymph using a bobber that is attached to three or two nymphs and I caste it upper river and when it floats past me and the line tightens up I cast it up again and wait till a fish bites. It was a very effective way to catch mountain whitefish and is how I caught my first mountain whitefish.  Then two days later I tried fishing in the park on my own with a grasshopper. Grasshoppers are made out of foam and other material used to make flies. How I used the grasshoppers I casted it upriver and it sits on top of the water and the fish bites, I set the hook up words if the fish don’t bite, I wait till floats past me and then I cast it up River. I caught my first cutthroat on a grasshopper.

One of my favorite spots to fly fish in the Ozarks is Bull Creek. My grandpa’s cousin owns a 900-acre ranch and bull Creek runs straight through it. Bull creek is filled with sunfish, long ear sunfish, gogle eye bass, and smallmouth bass. It also has a couple rainbow trout.