What's Catching You Fish?

Brute

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On my Green River trip, of the 23 browns I brought to net, 15 of them were on this size 18 micro Rambo… my version has sculpin olive sm wire and a 1.5mm blk silver tung bead…8/0 uni in camel, brown olive ice dub collar. My guide wanted the recipe…
 

Tom Butler

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More simi seal leech versions. The net refinish last winter came out well.
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Just missed the triple when the 3rd fish jumped just after netting the second one, threw the hook, bounced off the pontoon, and rimmed out. Freaking hillarious. The fish are so fit. Strong, lots of jumps, and just plain crazy!
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FinLuver

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Been having some success with these Thunder Ck. Minnows lately, stillwater fishing. Both countdown retrieve and trolling. I also use Clouser but these have been more productive.
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Some gifted to me by Richard Twarog…
He ties ‘em with a little longer head. For me, it helped to keep the bucktail from flaring outward too much and added a slimmer profile. Also, getting the hair wet when tying in helps to soften the hair for manageability…before storing, wet whole fly, hang by hook eye and let hang to dry. You’ll see why… 😉

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Tom Butler

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Some gifted to me by Richard Twarog…
He ties ‘em with a little longer head. For me, it helped to keep the bucktail from flaring outward too much and added a slimmer profile. Also, getting the hair wet when tying in helps to soften the hair for manageability…before storing, wet whole fly, hang by hook eye and let hang to dry. You’ll see why… 😉

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Thx for the tips, I'm interested in this fly. Tied a couple but have not had much chance to use them yet.
 

Tom Butler

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The leeches on a full sink got more trout, the other flies were fished on a dry line, which got more interest from spiny ray's. The Scara Monger took a trout and some red ear, however the black martinez nymph was best on that setup.
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Tom Butler

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Spectacular morning for a couple hours before things get busy.
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The leech with w/ the flash and collar I've been working on was really good.
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Most of the fish are these.
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Tom Butler

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The hairwing hare's ear w/ grey squirrel I copied from Rob Denson's site last winter was a great emerger today fished in a slightly riffled surface film.
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Tom Butler

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Fished the same hairwing hare that was solid in the lake the other day as a top dropper dry/wet in the river today with a hot spot softhackle hares ear a couple feet beneath it. Hard to beat anything with hare's ear and a partridge hackle, several other flies did less well.
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I got several doubles when a fish took the bottom nymph, the dry was pulled under abruptly, and another fish would just hammer it. Drew fish on it's own too, I like it.
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Different river today with different looking fish, really pretty.
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