Posted: 6/27/2013 1:55:31 PM EDT
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What is your favorite or go to fly on your local water?
Mine is split between the Parachute Blue Wing Olive and the Prince Nymph. |
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Enrico Puglis's 'Grass Shrimp' - colors to vary pending water clarity/conditions. http://i.imgur.com/H638v6O.jpg I haven't had the opportunity to do ANY fishing since moving to FL about a year ago, but I am intrigued by the opportunities here. Now I have to figure how I need to be rigged for the different situations I might fish here. ETA When I was living in northern NH my favorite flies for Brook Trout were the Hornberg, (fished wet or dry) or the Mosquito. |
| My summer favorite is a little ant I tie. I take Rainy's cylinder foam and cut it to length and tie in a piece of bright foam or yarn on top. I tie in spanflex legs that make it look like a mini Chernobyl. I tie it in all ant colors and in sizes 16 & 18. The little streams I frequent, the trout go crazy for them. |
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Parachute PMD with a hares ear dropper is a great producer BUT I got to tell you 20/18/16 Grifith Gnat with red wrap eye is a real sleeper .....you can try every thing in the box and when that fails tie on the smallest and work up the Gnat sizes and you will bust some lips! ...even waters /times that are mostly wet fly
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Parachute PMD with a hares ear dropper is a great producer BUT I got to tell you 20/18/16 Grifith Gnat with red wrap eye is a real sleeper .....you can try every thing in the box and when that fails tie on the smallest and work up the Gnat sizes and you will bust some lips! ...even waters /times that are mostly wet fly Bear There is a local guy around here that uses pretty much nothing but a Grifith Gnat with a pheasant tail dropper or a wooly bugger. It's a rare occasion when you pass him he is not hooked up.. |
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Quoted: Parachute Adams or Elk Hair Caddis up top, Hares Ear Nymph underwater. Can usually pull something out of the streams here with one of those. Yep, nearly universal and work well in CO. This time of year is also awesome for hoppers as they float nearly all and the fish are hungry, water is low/clear and you can see 'em forever! B2 Oh yeah, still LOVE the Royal Coachman just for my long-gone granddad... For whatever reason, he loved that fly.
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I've always loved the blue quill dry. Fun to tie too. It's one of the first hatches here too.
Hendricksons, Green Drake, Light Cahills all have thier place. As far as dries go I've caught more on a olive/black wolly bugger w/ a maribow tail than anything else. Bead head hares ear for nymphs and I curse the damn 28 trico hatches. I cant see the eyelet anymore |
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Enrico Puglis's 'Grass Shrimp' - colors to vary pending water clarity/conditions. http://i.imgur.com/H638v6O.jpg And where might I be able to get some of these? Hell, I'd eat them! :) |
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#4 or 6 weighted yellow stone with #20 bead head zugbug.
Stones are year round in every size. Fall winter = egg pattern with a bead head prince dropper Trout are on the bottom 90% of the time, so are my flies. This czech and polish nymphs are killer too Post wing Adams or hairs ear dries. Anything gray presented properly. |
| Most of my fly fishing is for trout, a very selective feeder so many different flies are used. If I had to pick a few of my favorite flies they are as follows: spring time- parachute adams. Summer- hopper dropper set up with a hares ear as the dropper. Fall- various streamers, ants an other terrestrials. It really all just depends on what is hatching or not hatching. |
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depends on when, where and for what.
Smallies in the spring I slay em on red eye leeches and schultyzs s3 sculphins stripped through their holding spots. In the summer they hit great on boogle bugs, stacked hair frog divers and murdich minnows and dragon flies. Falls program is back to streamers swung slowly through runs. Carp we knock em dead with Mulberry flies in the springish time, rest of the year small minnow streamers, carp darts and other locally tied carp flies. Steelhead is def a senyo AI. Caught way more steelhead swinging an AI then any other fly for steelhead. If I carry a dozen flies for a day of steelheading 8 will be AI's of different colors etc. Rest wil likely be a couple of intruder style flies and a couple of steeches. Salmon by far come on egg patterns during the day and at night they come on bueter crytal bullets and some real simple streamers (black bunny strip tied on a #6wet/nymph hook like a diachi 1550, with a small dubbin head). Those take litterally 30 seconds to tie apiece and will kill em at night. Small trout I do good on elk wing caddis, BWO's and various other mayflies, hoppers (late summer) and small nymphs and streamers. Unicorn Brown trout! gotta go with tommy lynch's drunk and disorderly deceiver, a circus peanut or a mad pup. Gotta throw "meat" to catch the big un's. If I just need to catch a fish or if my daughter is with me I tie on a Tequilia streamer, basically a fat wooly bugger with yellow and blk marabou tail, copper catcus chenile body and yellow crazy legs. great high volume catching fly. J- |
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Pine squirrel leech.
Straight deadly. Simple to tie. Pine Squirrel Leech |