Ard......
I've learned to look where the poster resides.....
Strange and different ideas lurk all over.....and so your approach is not universal. Nor will it be, but don't feel bad about it.
Lahontan Cuttthroat have hard mouths as well.....
After fishing at Pyramid for a couple weeks, suffering from the bloody strip finger (duct tape works well) and solidifying my muscle memory, I came back to dry fly fish, and found I was faster on the draw to risers, than using the rod tip lift, or sweep set.
The line is anchored on the water and slack isn't a problem as much. If as many do, they stack mend to empower their drift, when rod setting, they introduce all the slack into the air. OOOOOps.....
I think if you fished here with your let-them-set-for-themselves style, you wouldn't stick as many fish. I'd bet on it........which isn't a putdown of your abilities obviously....but a nod to well educated fish. Wild uneducated fish are pushovers, as opposed, to fish that get hooked many times. I constantly see fish eat and spit before even a pro could set in time. Sounds like you have fish that just "buy it", as opposed to ours, that must be sold......
I'd love to have you come by and fish to see...........
Just keep doing your thing, and we will as well.....lots of ways to skin a cat....
Or, no one way to do anything.
Jim
