What would you recomend?

[Flytyer317]

I am currently reading Gary Lafantaines Flyfishing high mountain lakes. in the book he mentions several flies to use in these lakes. I Plan to go on several trips to secluded lakes this summer, In northern Idaho, and want to know what flies to take. I currently have these on my list:

Improved Buzz Ball
Halo Midge Emerger

Gray Flex- Damsel
Blue Flex-Damsel

Cased Caddis larva
Floating Cased Caddis
Beadhead Deep Sparkle Pupa
Emergant Sparkle Pupa
Dacining Caddis
Diving Caddis

I will also take several Insects patterns, like foam beetles, ants, and hoppers.Thanks for any input you may have.
- David

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Game fish are too valuable to only be caught once.
-Lee Wulff

[MarkKillam]

all are good especially the emergent sparkle caddis and the halo emerger. I would add the following flies to a list and these are actually my goto flies for mountain lakes:

Woolly bugger in sizes 10-14
EHC in 12-18 (larger caddis make a fair hopper pattern in a pinch).
Marabou Damsel Nymph as tied here: [url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/beginners/part14.html:a07d3]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/beginners/part14.html[/url:a07d3]
Any scud pattern in sizes 16-22
And for midges I use cream midge spinner: [url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/032904fotw.html:a07d3]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/032904fotw.html[/url:a07d3] plus a variation that I tie based on that pattern

Actually all of the flies in my list are the only flies (in addition the sparkle caddis emerger) that I plan on taking this year since I am tired of carrying multiple fly boxes. Most of the places I fish have either brookies, cutts or both, and I find that generally speaking the fish arent too choosy.


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Take care everyone and cya around. Mark

[This message has been edited by MarkKillam (edited 26 March 2006).]

[Panman]

Renegade and a renegade and a renegade.

Tim Anderson

[MarkKillam]

actually I just looked in my fly box and realized that I forgot a couple of flies...duh:

griffiths gnat in sizes 14-22
caddis larva in sizes 14-18 (also can be used a midge larva when tied in smaller sizes 18-24)

would also recommend GRHE(size ten tied wiht rubber legs otherwise 12-1, and pheasant tails (14-1 as nymphs

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Take care everyone and cya around. Mark

[Benjo]

That's a great book. I like a small bead head wooly bugger, black, size 10 and 12. Maybe some bigger white stimulators in case you see spruce moths and some standards like adams and r coachman. Not really rocket science in the high lakes. There are winged ants in the summer and if it's windy they get blown into the water.