What's Catching You Fish?
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Hell yeah
Crawbugger
Steelhead
Matt what’s the wing material? Awesome job.
Thanks. The wing/body wrap is pearl baitfish emulator palmered up the chenille-wrapped shank. I might try to see if I can wrap those together or wrap the chenille more sparsely and try to palmer the flash in between the chenille wraps so the chenille shows through a bit more. Also after multiple fish this fly gets pretty tangly and ugly but it did not seem to bother the fish too much yesterday.
When I think back to all those years I fished weighted streamers on sink tips, stealing 5-10 yards off my cast and not producing more fish, I have to kick myself.
These are all the materials in the fly:
Matt are you swinging or stripping that?
Yes.
I was using an integrated15 foot type 6 sink tip.
Thanks!
An olive dun wet fly with fiber wings made a great top dropper fly on a warm but blustery day.
But the real winner was the muddled hares ear on point from Rob Denson's site that Scott P. turned us on to. Nothing on any middle fly.
Just cookie cutter rainbows in this lake but loads of fun.
But the real winner was the muddled hares ear on point from Rob Denson's site that Scott P. turned us on to. Nothing on any middle fly.
Just cookie cutter rainbows in this lake but loads of fun.
Pink Nighty
Life of the Party
Fly pic isnt great, but you get the idea! My biggest bull to date....
That's a biggun!
SpeyrodGB
Steelhead
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Hit a spot in between wineries on my lunch break. Started out stripping streamers, and got some really nice hits, but they must have been short strikes.
Started seeing baetis pop, and shortly after fish were "rising". Lots of baetis, not carpet or anything, but a good amount of adults floating on the surface. Seeing boils, and even a few fish come up, but not quite break the surface, I swapped to a dry emerger:
And then this wet emerger ~16" behind it:
Fish are crazy spooky in this creek. Like if you walk into casting position, they slow down rising before you even get to where you want to be. I've found its best as you get close to take a step, then wait a second, take another step, wait...repeat until you get close, and then it's time to make yourself low to the ground. Knees, and sometimes even belly to get you where you want. Then, on the knees for the cast.
First cast I wasn't quite close enough to mend without getting my line stuck on a tumbleweed on the point in front of me. So I mended anyways, fly line caught the tumbleweed, I yanked my rig out of there, and I thought I screwed up the hole. Fish stopped rising, which usually means you screwed up and the fish move down. You can reposition if this happens, but it ends up being a stupid game where you just keep pushing the fish downstream and just out of reach.
So I just kept still and waited to see if they started rising a bit. I think I spooked em a little but not too much. 3 minutes later I see a nice fish hover and take an emerger. I crawled just a tiny bit closer, so my rod length could reach over that tumbleweed on my mend. Good cast, good mend, dry floats into position and disappears, I set, and this fish goes airborne instantly:
Quite a few good jumps and a decent fight and got him to the net. Here's a closeup of that little wet emerger in his mouth:
That hole was done...smaller creek and the fish seem to all share the same feeding lies, which are a little few and far between. Found two more pods on my walk back to the truck, and caught a few smaller ones on both the dry and the wet at each spot.
Fun lunch break on a relatively warm January day!
Started seeing baetis pop, and shortly after fish were "rising". Lots of baetis, not carpet or anything, but a good amount of adults floating on the surface. Seeing boils, and even a few fish come up, but not quite break the surface, I swapped to a dry emerger:
And then this wet emerger ~16" behind it:
Fish are crazy spooky in this creek. Like if you walk into casting position, they slow down rising before you even get to where you want to be. I've found its best as you get close to take a step, then wait a second, take another step, wait...repeat until you get close, and then it's time to make yourself low to the ground. Knees, and sometimes even belly to get you where you want. Then, on the knees for the cast.
First cast I wasn't quite close enough to mend without getting my line stuck on a tumbleweed on the point in front of me. So I mended anyways, fly line caught the tumbleweed, I yanked my rig out of there, and I thought I screwed up the hole. Fish stopped rising, which usually means you screwed up and the fish move down. You can reposition if this happens, but it ends up being a stupid game where you just keep pushing the fish downstream and just out of reach.
So I just kept still and waited to see if they started rising a bit. I think I spooked em a little but not too much. 3 minutes later I see a nice fish hover and take an emerger. I crawled just a tiny bit closer, so my rod length could reach over that tumbleweed on my mend. Good cast, good mend, dry floats into position and disappears, I set, and this fish goes airborne instantly:
Quite a few good jumps and a decent fight and got him to the net. Here's a closeup of that little wet emerger in his mouth:
That hole was done...smaller creek and the fish seem to all share the same feeding lies, which are a little few and far between. Found two more pods on my walk back to the truck, and caught a few smaller ones on both the dry and the wet at each spot.
Fun lunch break on a relatively warm January day!
Catching that fish on that creek is something special, thanks for sharing James.
Every time I see your flies, it occurs to me that I'd have a hard time fishing one of those instead of framing it.
Just too pretty!
