{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Deep water snag advice

What Dalton said.

Also, one more technique to have up your sleeve, that I use when nothing else works (and this only works sometimes) is to pull the line as tight as you can and then let go suddenly so the line shoots out.  Sometimes the elasticity in the line is enough to shock your fly off of whatever it is hanging on.  But definitely use as a last approach, because you risk just driving the fly deeper into whatever you are stuck on.

On Monday, July 21, 2014 6:05:47 PM UTC-4, HermanyorFlorida wrote:

Yesterday I went out in my kayak to Lake Frederick, out near Winchester.  It's one of the modest collection of northern pike spots in Virginia, so paddled I out with the 8wt. and sinking tip line.  I got skunked, no big deal, that happens when you're pitching big bugs around.

My question is this.  I got snagged on a sunken tree in deep water.  I spent about twenty minutes alternately pulling the line directly by hand, reeling up and trying to touch the rod tip to the snag and paddling the boat in the direction away from my original cast.  I literally had a pair of scissors in hand and was reaching as deep as I could into the water to get as much of the sinking tip back before cutting when the fly popped free.  Anything else I could have done? 

I just got lucky this time.  I would hate to lose 6-10 ft. of specialized fly line, but perhaps that's just the risk of fishing in deep, snaggy water?  Any advice is appreciated.

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