There is nothing new about “Booby Pumping”. English fly fishers have been doing it for years and for a time it was considered so successful in some impoundments that it was banned. I have been fishing boobies for quite a few years and booby pumping has even won a couple of competitions for me.
For me polaroiding is one of the most rewarding forms of fly fishing. It involves the process of sighting fish with the aid of polaroid sunglasses and then working out and executing a when, where, what and how equation with the aim of enticing the sighted fish to take the fly. I like it because it puts me in environments that I enjoy and it’s a real challenge of my stealth and cunning. I guess to the uninitiated this all sounds pretty corny, well perhaps it is, but don’t knock it until you have tried it and had some success with it.
Spider type flies like the Black and Peacock are very buggy and suggestive flies. Weather being used as a polaroiding fly, a static wet, one of the flies in a team of loch style flies, or a fly to cover rising fish spider type soft hackle flies may be taken as a snail, submerged beetle, drowned terrestrial, diving beetle or even a corixia. Alternatively the fish may just pick them up because of the movement of the soft hackle or the suggestive buggy nature of the overall shape.
