We did that one more time and the salmon did the same again so with the fear of "putting it down", so to speak, we switched to a smaller hitch tube. That he did and the salmon splashed at it again. I told him to stop, stand still and make that same exact cast with the same amount of line. We'd started fishing a pool with a hitch tube and about halfway down a fish splashes it's tail to my client's fly. In early August 2011 I was guiding an American on the Huseyjarkvisl River. So I believe you need to get the hitching fly or tube pretty close to the fish to entice a reaction. These are my theories and I will be perfectly happy to take criticism, pointers, debates or whatever input you may have on the matter. To be perfectly clear - I am not any kind of guru on this matter and all I can tell you is what my experience with salmon fishing in Iceland and guiding for salmon has taught me. Either way it gets your heart going and you've located the fish. To be honest I'm not sure where that word comes from but basically the method requires the fly or tube fly to skate on the surface of the water, creating a "V" shape riffle on the surface that irritates the salmon (or whatever it does to it) and makes it either take it or splash it's tail to it. When I tell the we do hitching with single handed rods and floating lines they start to listen. Not to put that method for salmon fishing down but I can understand that view. Their reply usually depicts a more stereotypical view of double handed rods, sink tip lines and heavy tube flies in which they are not interested. I sometimes ask my clients who come to Iceland for trout fishing why (apart from the obvious economical factor) they are not interested in salmon fishing. You see hitching for salmon is a way to get salmon to come up to the surface to take your fly. Not because it is the most effective way (but if I were in general going for efficiency I'd be a bait fisherman) but because I get the most kick out of it. However I can safely say that in my opinion it is my favorite way to fish for salmon. Tough question and in no way possible to answer. Is the Hitch technique the most fun way to fish for Atlantic salmon? Here we see the action of the hitch tube in the water
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