Adventures in Fly Fishing

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Streamer Fishing for Big Trout

Flies
Zoo Cougar
Deer Head Rabbit
Madonna
EP Fiber Rainbow
Wooly Bugger
Rabbit Strip Leech
Baby Rainbow

Setup
Class IV or Class V full-sinking line (Courtland 444)
3' leader of 10 lb. mono (Maxima)

Technique
Use Jerk Strip

ONTARIO: Small Stream fishing for Brook Trout

Upper Saugeen and Nottawasaga riversheds

Rocky Saugeen near Markdale

How To Organize A Fly Box

Unknown
box 1 - nymphs, he had 2 or 3 of his favorite patterns in a variety of sizes. He only uses a couple of patterns that are generic, like copper johns, hares ear nymphs, that sort
Box 2 - dry flies. again, using only a couple of patterns that are productive to your area.
Box 3 - streamers
Box 4 - bass/pike flies
box 5 - specific to your trip. do some research ahead of time and find out what is working and tie up some of them.

Keith Weeks
BASS
- Streamer box (2-12)
- Popper box (8)

TROUT
- Mayfly box
- Caddis box
- Streamer box (2-12)

Greg Herring
BASS
- Nymphs (6-14) & Wooly Buggers (2-12)
- Bugs (2-4) & Streamers (2-12)

TROUT
- Caddis & Mayfly Nymphs (10-16)
- Wet Flies (rising and drowning) (6-14)
- Small streamers
- Dry flies (caddis and mayflies): based on hatch (10-18)

STEELHEAD (2 or 4-8)

William Gerrard
I simply organize them by the species I'm targeting -- flies for brown trout in streams, for rainbows in ponds, for smallmouth bass, for pike, and for brook trout in lakes. A couple of boxes overlap more than one species, but generally it works well.

Best Advice Ever for Shopping

Experience should be the hand that writes the shopping list.

Flies

Rusty Usual #16-#18

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Zoo Cougar
Butt Monkey

Small Stream Dry Fly Fishing
The Usual #12-#16
Elk Hair Caddis

Nymphs
Zug Bug (#6-#12 for bass, #10-#16 for trout)
Kaufman Stone, black (#2-#8 for bass, #6-#10 for trout)
Kaufman Stone, yellow (#4-#10 for bass, #8-#14 for trout)
Caddis Pupa, green, #12-#16
Caddis Pupa, orange, #14-#18

CARP
From Field & Stream:
Crayfish Imitations
Woolly Worms
Woolly Buggers
Trout-style nymphs size 6-10

Brown, olive, tan and black

Umpqua
Rainey