Jim, I do well on LMB and SMB with Wooley Buggers. If it ain't up top, it's underneath with a WB! The novelty and irony of the thread continues....
Jim, I do well on LMB and SMB with Wooley Buggers. If it ain't up top, it's underneath with a WB! The novelty and irony of the thread continues....
Yep,
The Mickey Finn !!! Got it in my box, but must say I have never caught anything on it (must be fishing in the wrong place for Mickey Finns). Do remember when I was a boy (still learning to tie) the wet fly packs at K-Mart or Wal-Mart. Some of the flies were pretty good, & some plain worthless (like the all yellow fly). Then again, I know a high mountain lake (13,000 ft. base lake)
in Colorado where you can throw in a straight hook & the cutts & brookies will nail it (like cotton picki'n bluegills). Maybe one of these days, If I'm not too old & sucking wind to hike up that dang mountain, I'll pull out the Mickey & hook a few !!!!!
Mickey Finn for me as well!
I gave 'em all away and won't
tie any more!
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Boy I dont ever really recall catching a fish on artificial bait, can't believe anybody ever has. What works the best for me is I just tie a little hook on to my tippet and put some orange power bait on it or dip it with a nighcrawler and bam, every cast I catch a fish. The only way I haven't caugh a fish is with a nightcrawler that floats on the top, I tried putting some floatant on them and it never works!!! can anybody suggest me some good floatant?
I have a problem with green. One day this year I caught 3 steelhead on an olive woolly bugger I recovered from an underwater root but other than that, no streamer or nymph in green has worked for me
Perhaps its a lack of confidence feeling that I'm fishing with a piece of weed or something.
Use a syringe and fill the worm up with air. It'll **** 'em off but it's all natural AND won't leave an oil slick on the water. Careful, though, the syringe kept in your vest or fanny pack will wake you up from a good creekside nap in a hurry!
Joe
P.S. Tried that technique with dry flies once to float them better. It kept blowing the dubbing and the wings clean off.
[This message has been edited by Joe Billingsley (edited 27 September 2005).]
Black ants. Never a fish on any size black ant for me.
We all have our jinx fly.
For me ( as with Jim Hatch )
It's the wooley bugger.
Does not matter what color ( combo ) or size, unweighted, lead-wrapped, or beadhead/conehead.
Fished dead-drift, or with action, stripped
fast or slow, stop-n-go, upstream, quartered-up, q-down, left hanging - it
doesn't matter.
NEVER caught anything in a lake or steam on one - in fifteen years of Flyfishing.
Yes, of course I continue to try them anyway...
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Knowledge is power ? Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
? Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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The_Sib
Mickey Finn works well on sea run cutts. They love any bright color, red, yellow, orange, etc.
Glo ball because I will never use them till I see a glo ball hatch. ha ha. Light cahill have never worked for me have tried them several times never caught a fish on it.
[This message has been edited by blue gill (edited 28 September 2005).]
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