Here it is a chance to help me out, Im just getting into streamer fishing and the only streamer I know that can produce results for me so far is a white, brown, and olive wooley bugger. Any suggestions on something different that I could tie up that could produce the same or even better results on trout?
Thank You
Marko
Marko,
Semiseal leech. Very easy tie, hugely effective fly (not just for trout, though, lots of fish will eat it). Comes in lots of great colors. My personal favorites are black, brown and olive, but chartruese and orange are good too.
You might want to consider a traditional bucktail type streamer or it’s more modern variations (the Gierach Special and it’s friends are a favorite of mine). Simple tie, the variations can imitate most minnows and fry.
Still, hard to beat the 'bugger, though.
Good Luck!
Buddy
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Foxee Clouser is a great one, and anything with magnum sized bunny strips…
Gartside’s Soft hackle streamer
“The trout were laughing so hard at us that they considered evolving legs so they could crawl on to land and catch their breath”
Dave Barry
Black Bugger, Foxee Clouser, and a White Crystal Bugger are my top 3.
My favorites (in this order):
- Shenk’s white minnow in size 8 or 10
- Clouser’ Foxee Minnow in size 10
- All black Woolly Bugger with flash in the tail.
Any of these 3 will catch trout where I fish. These are my go to flies when I can’t figure out what they’re eating.
Small black or white marabou muddler…come on, no muddler fans out there??
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Its very hard to beat a woolly bugger in effectiveness. The only pattern to come close is the muddler minnow.
Ditto on the Muddler, my favorite is a small (size 10 3XL hook) Muddler with a conehead. Make the tail and wing out of grouse, the body out of peacock. Another one I like is a Smuddler, use a size 14 3XL hook, some red hackle fibers for the tail, silver tinsel for the body, and a deer hair head, no wing.
Alberto
RW here,
As big a fan as I am of wet flies, a
Black Ghost trolling streamer tied in a casting size, usually as small as a size 10 or 12, (about an inch long) has caught more brook trout for me over the years than all my other flies combined.
Later, RW
“We fish for pleasure; I for mine, you for yours.” -James Leisenring on fishing the wet fly-
Another for the muddler.Some would say they aren’t the easiest to tie (but I never seemed to have a problem with them)
In my opinion one of the best flies as it seems to represent so many different things. There are lots on variations but I like a little red or orange in mine.
Bob
various clouser-style minnows. adjust the weight of the lead-eyes, the size of the hook, and the colors of the bucktail/hair components to suit the water your fishing.
i use them in warm water, cold water, moving or still. throw on a mono weedguard and deep dive it in ponds for large mouths. switch to bead-chain eyes for streams. dark, light, bucktail, polarfiber hair, craft fur…they all work.
IMHO–the clouser is probably the second most useful pattern depending on the sizes and colors you choose to make them.
of course, it is second only to the wooly bugger… 
Everyone dies. Only the lucky ever truly Live. Take your time.
Chris-Bishop, CA, USA
- Baby Brook trout.
- Hornberg.
-ST
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In no particular order… But these are the ones I carry.
Conehead Spruce
Kiwi Muddler
Zoo Cougar
Wooly sculpin
Woolhead Sculpin
Wooly Bugger
Madonna
hi there,
I generally like clousers, like brown over white and also like muddlers with zonker tail and a little flash… usually fished on sinktip line, wooly buggers are also good.
Actually I like two for trout.
Hairwing (streamer) Royal Coachman on a size 10 nymph/streamer hook. Tied like the wet fly but with a white calftail wing instead of duck quill sections and no hackle.
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Squirrel Tail or Black Nosed Dace (bucktail) on a size 10 nymph/streamer hook. Something like this:
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Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL
“Flip a fly”
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Boy, Thank You All for the responses and keep them comming, lots of good ideas that I am going to have to try. Some of these I won’t be able to make because I don’t have anyplace close that I can find the materials for them but I will for sure make all that I can and test each one out and see what works the best!
Thank You
Marko
I will be anxious to read Ray’s answer to this one.
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Anyone ever use a Zoo Cougar?
I’ve had mixed results but I like the looks of the streamer.
Ken
There is a fine line between fly fishing and and just standing in a river looking like and idiot.