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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
    I can't seem ta find the sweet taste of the stream

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    Jeffro, they stock a lot of trout here in the fall. I had excellent luck this winter on a size 12 partridge and orange.
    Wet wadin' hillbilly extraordinaire

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    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---

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    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....
    The Green Hornet strikes again!!!

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    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.

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    Small olive bugger-bead head # 10, stripped very slowly

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    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.

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    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.
    I can't seem ta find the sweet taste of the stream

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    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.
    Donald Nicolson (Scotland)

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