Small streaming or laking?
What's Catching You Fish?
- Thread starter Buzzy
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A bit of both, actually. Harriet and Oak Grove. This guy was on the stream.
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I’ve been wanting to get to the latter. Let’s get out there soon.
Absolutely.
Hoofer
Life of the Party
I’m just back from the borderlands, where I got consistently lucky with the wrong flies, and broke off all the big fish, one way or another. The flies I lost were:
Bwo sofhackle during a midge hatch
Green softhackle during brown drakes (!)
Buzzball during caddis-y time
Cranefly** during roasty afternoon time. (!!)
(** I didn’t tie the cranefly, and owe Mr Butler thanks for the idea of buying a couple. Holysmokes, hotter’n July. I’m plotting an Outlaw copycat pattern named “Willie’s Gravy Crane” and/or “Willie’s Navel Crane.”)
The drake I crackered off in the middle of Famous Water. I have never farted in church, given limited opportunity, but the Good Lord can’t mind too much…
Bwo sofhackle during a midge hatch
Green softhackle during brown drakes (!)
Buzzball during caddis-y time
Cranefly** during roasty afternoon time. (!!)
(** I didn’t tie the cranefly, and owe Mr Butler thanks for the idea of buying a couple. Holysmokes, hotter’n July. I’m plotting an Outlaw copycat pattern named “Willie’s Gravy Crane” and/or “Willie’s Navel Crane.”)
The drake I crackered off in the middle of Famous Water. I have never farted in church, given limited opportunity, but the Good Lord can’t mind too much…
A bunch of small wild bows (maybe steelhead smolt?) wouldn’t leave this tan comparadun alone.
A Pat's Rubberlegs
And the olive hare'e ear caddis was the best tail fly of yesterdays ties.
And the olive hare'e ear caddis was the best tail fly of yesterdays ties.
Not a tube fly, tied on a long straight shank hook, 2/0 looks like a saltwater Mustad S74SNP-DT Streamer O'Shaughnessy Hook (@VAGABOND could confirm as he tied that fly and graciously sent it to me along many others when I bought one of his fly rods some years ago, thanks again!).
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The fish didn't care too much for the yellow humpy again but they would race each other, 2-3 at a time, to eat this yellow stimulator. Just the darnedest thing.
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The Knuckle Dragging Jig in Golden Stone I posted was super.
Is yours missing hook point, too?I have an ant pattern designed similar to yours…I had the same success rate too.
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