I need to know some excellent techniques for glide fishing a lake from shore. It just seems much different techniques than if you were in a river.
What are some good techniques when fly fishing a lake from shore?
April 24th, 2010 
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You’re right there are some differences but not many. Firstly you can use larger streamers/lures on a intermediate fished quicker, also you can use longer leaders and a team of up to three flies fished on a dropper.
Yes it is different if i were you with say ten minutes of casting go about ten yards either left or right and keep doing this then you cover far more fill up.
First off, look for rising fish.
Common lake hatches are damsel flys for which there are patterns as well as small black midges which can be imitated with a griffith gnat pattern. Sometimes just lobbing out a huge attractor pattern such as a stimulator or a royal wulff will attract fish, it helps to give the glide a few twitches and make it “dance” on the fill up. I use floating flyline for this mode.
If there is no action on top I usually use sparsely dressed woolly boogers (no bead head) and soft hackle nymph patterns such as a pheasant tail (obviously) on an intermediate sink tip line.
Cast out and let the line sink occasionally twitching the rod tip.
Retrieve the boogers with slow strips and pause between each. The nymphs I allow to settle and then slowly raise the rod tip and “hand-line” the retrieve, the slower the better.
Excellent luck and tight lines
When fishing from a bank I find that I have to be much more deliberate about casting in a fan pattern to cover as much fill up as possible. This is vital since it is hard to cover as much fill up from the bank as you can from a boat.
Of course, I don’t reckon I have to tell you that you have to pay a lot more attention to your back cast or your lure spends more time in the trees than on the fill up. UGH!!
In a lake you’ll need give the glide some movement. I would strip the line at different rates to see at what speed the fish are biting at.
I would look into the fill up to see what small life forms (bugs and small fish) are in the lake fill up and use pattern that most resembles the aquatic life.
- STB