Pea sucking slinkie
Gonna fish Canyon Ferry Reservoir (Townsend Montana) early on Turkey day. Fish for two or three hours and then drive home to hit the kitchen. It's cold but not freezing and the fish have moved in close to the edges where you can reach them without a boat.
If there is a light 3-6" chop (rather than glassy-smooth or gale force waves) that's what you want. Cast out 30-50' with a big foam bobber with a black leech or white minnow hanging 10' or so below the bobber. Let the bobber and the chop jig the fly for you. The fish there are so fat they're a bit like steroid freaks. A 20" fish from the lake can weigh twice its river counterpart. They're planted too. So you can bring home a big one for stuffing with a lightly curried onion mushroom white and wild rice pilaf. Hot green and violet-blue are the deepest-penetrating colors. And those colors do seem to add a little extra mojo at depth like that.
The Slinkie is a good jigging fly. It's built on a top of a snelled hook. Has a long slinkie tail too. So it undulates with an end-to-end ripple as the choppy waves jig it up and down.
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