What are your favorite Arctic Grayling flies? I have a chance to go chase Grayling in July. If I can catch just one, it will fill a small section of my 41 year old bucket list. Thanks ahead.
Joe,
The ones I caught (very small sample size) in Montana and Alaska stillwater's were on softhackles like this (with and without a bead head)
Tried for them on some little blue lines in SW Montana with dries I found on some U.K. sites; couldn't find any grayling looking up that trip but brook trout ate them.
Brookes' Fancy
Tommy's Favorite
Like I said, my sample size is very small, but from what I can tell, they're not real picky.
Regards,
Scott
Regards,
Scott
i have only been for grayling for one week in Saskatchewan Canada near the artic circle and the was in the fall. We caught them until our arms ached. Simple dun gray size 14 16 dry flies were best in the evening . During mornings an days a dark brown size 10 marabou leech jig drifted and occasionally twitched thru the moderate runs and pools was simply deadly
Have fished for them in AK, and they pretty much took the same stuff the trout were on. Best fly for that one trip was just a BWO pattern (Mercer's Micro Mayfly) but I think we got a few on eggs as well, by the nymph definitely outperformed them, for whatever reason. This was in a river system with a lot of rain, so we were never able to ever rise any on dries. I suspect as long as your trout box is well stocked, you already have flies that will work.
Maybe you could get some rises to a Klinkhamer? They were developed for Grayling.
Forgot about Klinks; good call. If you do a search on grayling patterns on the U.K. fly fishing site https://www.flyfishing.co.uk you’ll find plenty of flies to choose from
Regards,
Scott
We chased them in a Yellowstone lake and caught them on pretty much anything. I fished a brassie, and switched to a Griffith's gnat.
Isaiah 41:10
I don't know if it's Grayling in general or just Yellowstone Grayling, but the latter never struck me as being much of a challenge. Taken quite a few over the decades on hopper and yellow stimulators size 8 - 10, never have needed to resort to a nymph or wet.