That one is my favorite...it has some excellent colors!
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LOL Seems to be the same thing here with Brookies... today going to be almost 90 ? Is this the month of May ? The brookies don't know they love my favorite flies, there are so many hatches going on now all at the same time! I sat on the stream side the other day and just watched, there was hatches from 22 to 10 and some flies looked big enough to maybe eat the Brookies for dinner lol Poor fishes or poor fisherman? Or yeah fishes and yeah for the fisherman? :-)
:-) I think I am going to try this!
My wife thinks I do too many things that are pointless without trying to be pointless. I think I will stick with the hooks with a point.
Great reports John. I'm really interested in your experiments. For dries, colour is probably not overly important given that the fish see the fly against the brighter background of the sky. So, as has been talked about before, they probably see the silohette in black. Hence, size and shape are where the triggers are. Nymphs, or wets, may give more importance to colour. I've had some days where I would take fish on a yellow bodied fly, or maybe one that had red in it, but switch to a similar shape and size without the key colour, and the fish stopped taking. Go back to the original fly, and action on again. Of course, I've had other days where it seemed anything goes and, more frequently, I apparently left the required fly at home! :)
Also, it's interesting to see that you're getting about as many flies with the pointy things as the pointless flies. It seems that the big hook thing doesn't put them off all that much, which is interesting since it would affect the size and shape that they see!
Fish, you can never really figure them out. Just make some guesses that seem to work for awhile. I think that's part of the fun though.
- Jeff
John, I'm thinking I might try some slightly smaller versions of your fly on the local bluegills and crappies. I have printed off your tying instructions for your JC's Salmonfly that was posted in the FOTW on June 7, 2010. Other than colors, have you made any tweaks to the pattern or how you tie it since then?
We spent an interesting hour with the F&G biologists up on a tributary of the Salmon river when they were tagging those babies headed downstream, lots of fun to see where they come from.
No, this was above Stanley, I think these were headed for the main Salmon that heads down to Challis, but that's an interesting area, some of the streams go into one fork and some into another only about 20 miles apart. There's a hatchery there that you can see those huge Salmon getting through less than a foot of water - they net the wild ones and let them go back up farther, and keep the hatchery fish in the runs. They're pretty beatup by the time they get up there - 700 miles.
Nice report John.... sounds like a "all rounder" day with a little of this and that.. 55D.
I LOVE reading your fishing reports John! Thanks for sharing!