I would like to cut down the amount of flies I carry with me for trout. What are the essential streamer flies you should carry besides the wooly bugger and clouser foxy minnow? Mickey finn and Black nose dace? Squirrel tail??
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I would like to cut down the amount of flies I carry with me for trout. What are the essential streamer flies you should carry besides the wooly bugger and clouser foxy minnow? Mickey finn and Black nose dace? Squirrel tail??
Just out of curiosity, jkilroy, which streamers have you already caught trout on?
Wooly bugger, white rabbit leach and foxy clouser. I don't catch too many trout on streamers mostly nymphs.
Muddlers and Zonkers.
Something that looks like a shad.
Peacock/green top and white and pearl k-flash body.
Be creative.
All those others work real good. It's just a matter of the fisherman making them work.
I fish alot of streamers, sometimes on their own, sometimes in tandem with a small wet or a nymph. Looking at my fishing logs, in the past three years, roughly 60% of the trout I have caught were on the same streamer, the Conehead Combo. This fly is in the Fly of the Week archives. My good friend and fishing buddy Peter Frailey came up with this awesome pattern. This fly has replaced the Woolly Bugger in my fly box.
I carry it in two colors, black and olive, and in two sizes, 6 and 10 (Mustad 9672).
Regards,
Alberto
Please tell me...what % of the time do you fish the Conehead Combo?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alberto
The streamers that I use most of the time are Light Spruce, Hornberg wet, Western Coachman, Black or Olive Conehead woolly bugger. Usually in 2 at a time. Front fly is usually the light spruce or a Black cone head woolly bugger. Depends on what depth of water I want the streamers to swing.
And should we define what we are talking about????The question was trout ...so we are all onboard about that....but are we talking rivers?...the post above referenced the swing so I guess it was rivers....or are we talking stillwaters????
If we are going to learn IMHO we need to know what we are talking about....Oh , and I am not disparaging the original post....
strip leech in various colors, zoo cougars in yellow and white.
Small streams in Central Pa.
If I were to choose two trout streamers, they would be the hornberg and a Gartside softhackle.
I like the softhackle in saltwater size too.
Kilroy,
I'm not into 'patterns' much. Too limiting and confusing.
However,
Trout eat a couple of things that we use streamers to imitate.
I'd always have leech imitating flies in several basic colors. Lots of simple ties for these. Pick one you like, as it's not critical.
And I'd always have minnow imitating flies in several colors (maybe to match the forage fish that are in your water?).
You can 'pick' how you tie these, as it doesn't matter much, but I'd think you'd want to have some.
Good Luck!
Buddy
Ducksterman,
Good question, unless the water is really low or slow moving, the fly I put on is the Conehead Combo (this is a heavy fly). If I decide to try another pattern I will usually just hang it as a dropper of the bend of the Conehead Combo and let the fish decide which one they like best.
Regards,
ALberto
For trout or bass in rivers or streams
Black mohair leech with black (or gun metal)glass bead head.
in sizes 14 to 4 2x or 3x long hook.
(but I've also tied them on jig hooks or whatever else I had on hand)
Ed
Don't forget to take a Hornberg!
jed
Hi,
I've had a lot of luck here on my own pattern shown at the bottom (sorry, a bit out of focus) on both rainbows and browns (my personal best was a 7.25 lbs brown the first day I used this pattern).
I also tie Cosseboom's on size 10 2x shank hooks. Standard colours, and also with a yellow body with red squirrel wings and brown hackel. This latter colour scheme is similar to a Parson's Glory, which is a popular matuka fly in NZ. I've caught some good sized rainbows on both.
- Jeff
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1.../fly_small.jpg
Tail : yellow fibres
Rib : oval silver tinsel
Body : flat silver tinsel
Throat: red fibres
Wing : pine squirrel tail
Cheeks: chesnut brown feather from a pheasant or woodcock wing
For central PA, I almost exclusively use the Shenks White Minnow in size 8 down to 12. I tie it like Ed describes - no weight added to fly at all, but then pinch on 2 or 3 split shot about 4 inches ahead of the fly. I enjoy using this fly when my fishing partner is using nymphs because I'll cast just below him and nail a trout almost every time.