Your Best Streamer Pattern and how to fish?

I've been using nymphs, dry flies, but hardly a streamer pattern on streams...I've tried a muddler, but can't seem to get anything to take.

Do you have any preference for stream patterns and how do you fish them?

hornberg

small split 12 inches up......

slow small strips.........

pauses......

hang on!

Try a Conehead Kiwi Muddler or a Conehead Zuddler.

The Meramec (Central Missouri) where I do most of my fishing has lots of suckers. I tie a marabou streamer that is silver-gray on top, white below, with just a little bit of yellow marabou on the bottom. I make them pretty long on size 1 hooks. The strikes these things draw are awesome.
Plaidad

The Zonked Squirrel Streamer in Natural or Olive works well for wild and hatchery fish in sizes 6 and 10. I usually omit the red flash at the throat and add 3-5 strands of red Krystal Flash under the tail. The 3/16 cone is good for size 10. I usually go up to a 7/32 cone for size 6.
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The streamer I use is far more dependant on the target fish than anything else for me Here in Idaho where we have Browns, Rainbow and cuts in the rivers. The only one that eats streamers well are the Browns. My fav. is a white 4" long articulated strip leach But I also use size 1/0 and 2/0 mudlers with good success. lakes on the other hand The bows seem to eat leaches and buggers pretty well.

Rich

I just started useing streams a couple of months ago. I just kept experimenting with what stripping movments i knew from shows, and web sites. I found that a size 6 minnow muddler works well, and i only strip it in about 2 inches at a time, then let it pause then repeat. It works great. Ive even had fish that the fly is half the size of the fish bite. That amazes me