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For Stillwater trout flies; what do you suggest for a local pond that has been stocked?
Everyone just uses corn......but I want to use my flyrod....I need to use something like an adams wouldnt ya think...or pertymuch anything that'll float huh?
Thanks
Jeffro, they stock a lot of trout here in the fall. I had excellent luck this winter on a size 12 partridge and orange.
jeffro,
A Pheasant Tail can look like a piece of fish food that the trout have been eating. They will take a small Woolly Bugger and soft hackles fished just below the surface. You can try dries, the Adams is always a good choice along with a Griffith's Gnat. Just get to casting and have fun.
Larry ---sagefisher---
I'd start out with some wet flies under an indicator a ways, or stripping buggers. Hares ear, partridge and peacock, orange and teal, Professer, black gnat....
Jeffro,
The only trout in my immediate area are stoked ponds. I've only used small streamers since I've never seen any indication they were taking anything on the surface.
Small olive bugger-bead head # 10, stripped very slowly
I'm all for stripping buggers. But, if that fails, try hanging a chironomid a foot or so off the bottom. Most every stillwater has midges and they hatch most, if not all, year. Even stockers will figure it out.
Thanks fellas,,,I didnt get to go today but next weekend for sure....and I will take all of each of your choices and will let ya know which one worked.
I wound up sleepin till 1;30 in the afternoon and was much needed rest .....been workin solid except for sundays and we are finally makin some money here at the shop yee-haw.....
I washed work clothes and now have 2 >1" thick new york strip steaks that marinated all day on the grill and some jalepeneos stuffed with fried shrimps and pepper jack cheese,,, a salad on the side with some ranch beans warming up, and corn on the cob roasting in butter and salt n pepper in tin foil on the grill and now havin 2 shots of Jack daniels and coke and just enjoyin my day off ....wish ya'll were here.......
Thanks for all the help ya'll.
Here are a collection of Midges and Buzzers (chironomids)
http://donaldnicolson.webplus.net/page7.html
Here are some Nymph patterns worth trying:-
http://donaldnicolson.webplus.net/page5.html
This is a UK website with a lot of ideas for tying your own :-
http://www.ukfishingflies.co.uk/acat...elections.html
Best of luck, there is nothing like hooking on one of yoyr own flies.
Here's some patterns that have worked for me on our local stocked trout ponds (from shallowest to deepest, although even the first one sinks slowly):
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...unweighted.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...utFly_bead.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...rookWunder.jpg
Hi,
If corn works, then try something yellow. I would go with a soft hackle on a light wire hook myself, probably start with a water cricket (see FOTW archives for tying instructions; though it's just a yellow floss body, black rib, and starling softhackle), and after that try a partridge and orange or woodcock and orange, a waterhen bloa, hare's ear and partrige with peacock herl head, a grizzle - grey -and possum (got my first trout on a soft hackle with that pattern: grey thread body, possum dubbed small thorax, and grizzle hen hackle), or peacock and partridge. Hmm, if you have blow flies around, try a Dark Betty (royal blue floss body and starling soft hackle).
If that's not working for you, I would try some small buggers, or some small double hackles like a Red Setter, or Fletcher's Fuzzy Wuzzy (both in the FOTW archives: but I would tie these in size 10 using wool, rather than cheneil). One that I've had some luck with in a small pond where there are a lot of damsel flies and dragon flies is a "Rotodyeran Special" (thread black, tail: black squirrel tail, body: green wool or seal's fur dubbing, hackle: two sets of one yellow then one grizzle overtop, the first set tied in mid body, the second at the head). This is one of Hugh McDowell's flies. There's also Bragg's Dragon, which is much the same expect you palmer a grizzle hackle dyed yellow over the body rather than the double hackle construction - this is easier to tie in the smaller sizes (12 and 14).
If there are small fish in the ponds, tie some small bucktail, squirrel tail, or feather wing streamers (i.e. size 10 with 2x shanks) and pull those through. I've had pretty good luck with those actually.
Also, small flat wing patterns may work (here's a link to a site with some flat wing streamer's that look good;
http://globalflyfisher.com/streamers...g/flatwing.htm
In NZ we have a bunch of pukeku flies tied this way, but you can't get pukeku in the US). I would suggest tying these on regular length hooks to shorten the up and make them more beetle like. I do ok with a green bodied, copper ribbed, and two pheasant neck feather's for the wing (the coppery feathers, that are sort of heart shaped, on a cock ringneck).
- Jeff
You guys are great ....Thanks....I looked at all the links ya'll sent and wow....
I have to admit I dont have very much excperience at using a Fly Rod and just want to promise that I am gonna go as soon as I get achance again.
Thanks ya'll
Chironomids!!!!!!! Under an indicator with a nice roll cast so as to cast the indicator and to not hook people or trees on and around the pond. Second would be the go to Haresear with a roll cast also and a steady timed strip.
Thank you Maa'm,
Do ya think my 15" Spey Rod would too much overkill????LOL
I been practicing with it and gotta admit it will Roll-cast about 50 feet ....I gotta couple of 80 and 90 footers a few times,that was fun until got all tangled up and popped myself in the chest.....all I could do was close my eyes and wham ,,,got me good lol
If you want basic Chironomid fishing, here's how it is done
in the UK.
http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/buzzer/index.php
An other Chironomid pattern worth considerering.
http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/janbuzzers/
This is a very successful pattern in the UK
http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/diawl_bach/
These are probably the best instructional stillwater articles
on Chironomids etc from the UK.
jeffro,
Chironomid (off the hook bend of a Griffiths Gnat) or a soft-hackle. If you have tight quarters with a crowded situation, you can toss a spinning bubble with a long leader and a soft- hackle, using your spinning rod. Yes, I said it, SPINNING ROD! LOL!!! This has saved the day for me many times, on crowded ponds.
Best regards, Dave S.
Here's a collection of midge patterns that I use:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...amm/Midges.jpg
- Jeff