LIZZIE'S STONE
This weeks Fly of the Week is once again from John Scott of Rigby, ID
LIZZIE'S STONE
This weeks Fly of the Week is once again from John Scott of Rigby, ID
I REALLY like this fly!! Need to get a bunch tied up before our South Dakota trip. Not any super kewl named streams out there, although I think the fishies will go for this fly ... big time!!!
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
Um, Betty.... I hate to disappoint you but there ain't no fishies in South Dakota. At least that's what I heard.
What?
No fishies in SOUTH Dakota?
Did they all move to NORTH Dakota?
Is there some secret government trout relocation program we should know about?
Conspiracy theorists will go wild on this factoid..
Most disturbing
"Is there some secret government trout relocation program we should know about?
Conspiracy theorists will go wild on this factoid..
Most disturbing "
Yep and heres the proof.
http://www.pacificrivers.org/images/.../image_preview
"Complexity is easy; Simplicity is difficult."
Georgy Shragin
Designer of ppsh41 sub machine gun
Another great fly John , can't wait to see the next one.
This is a beautiful pattern --- I plan on tying some up for my home river here in Michigan.
There's beautiful, like the friend for whom this fly is named, and there is fishable, like in hitting four creeks in Northern Idaho between 11:00 a.m and 5:00 p.m. today and catching cutts in all of them with this fly. My friend could probably do as well if she had been on the water with me, so I guess that makes her fishable, too.
The first creek only produced two medium size cutts but the fly also got some attention. Not embarassed to say that the FEB Hopper was the hot ticket on that creek for getting looks, and hits, and chases if not fishies in hand ( another two ).
On the second creek, Elizabeth Creek, Lizzie's Stone hit her stride. Only landed about half a dozen, but had at least that many more hits, in just a few spots and in under half an hour.
Back to some bigger water, the N. F. of the Clearwater. Something like nine or ten fish in hand and turned a bunch more, including several that looked to be in the 12-13" range.
Finally, Long Creek cutts took a shine to this fly. Landed five or six and turned another five or six. These fish were smaller, but they had bigger appetites and were more aggressive about taking Lizzie's Stone. A couple of them took a shot at it after it had sunk, one ate it and the other missed it.
Most of the water I fished today was VERY clear. In many cases, I could see the fish coming to the fly, whether it hit it, refused it, ate it, whatever. On the day, I probably saw something over forty fish on it or around it.
John
The fish are always right.