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I'm only ten minutes down the road so I fish the swift a few times a week, though I generally stay away from the Y pool. If I were from out of town and making a trip to the swift it's understandable why the big draw is the Y pool, its loaded and usually many different approaches will work there. Often times you can't even find a spot to stand though, it's heavily fished and guys will stay in the same spots for hours on end.
You have to be really good to be consistently successful with dries, I stick with nymphs and soft hackles all sub-surface and always catch fish. Took me about a full year to get the hang of how to fish that river. As mentioned above you really have to hone your technique and stick with it, have confidence in your rig, not changing flies every two seconds because you'll find nothing you're switching to will work. Like mentioned above you can have two guys fishing the same fly from the same spot and it boils down to presentation.
I personally prefer "real rivers" like the east branch of the westfield, the swift is more of an aquarium but as said above is maddeningly attractive and often the only game in town being that it's a tailwater.
You have to be really good to be consistently successful with dries, I stick with nymphs and soft hackles all sub-surface and always catch fish. Took me about a full year to get the hang of how to fish that river. As mentioned above you really have to hone your technique and stick with it, have confidence in your rig, not changing flies every two seconds because you'll find nothing you're switching to will work. Like mentioned above you can have two guys fishing the same fly from the same spot and it boils down to presentation.
I personally prefer "real rivers" like the east branch of the westfield, the swift is more of an aquarium but as said above is maddeningly attractive and often the only game in town being that it's a tailwater.
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