Each summer I would fish a run on the Lower Yuba River with caddis emergers and soft hackles in the evenings. We had many days with plenty of fish up in the water column and taking our presentations and running up and down the river. About 45 minutes until dusk we would say “Let’s head for the honey hole”. This was a big back eddy on the way back to the truck. It was a large reversing eddy and each evening right at dusk the PED’s would start coming off. You could tie on a soft hackle and cast it into the main flow headed downstream and it would work its way into the eddy water. Trout would just sit there waiting for the PEDs. You just had to let them take it and lift your rod slowly but deliberately and fish-on. This would go on even after dark and we would be landing fish by headlamp. This became a regular routine. If you haven’t tried this you should.
