Hey its been a while scince ive been here but Im going fishing in wy in july and august for about a month and am trying to stock up my fly boxes. What would be a good fly list which covers alot of different types of water? Thanks alot, joe
Hey there Joe!
At the risk of sounding sarcastic, since you’ll be fishing many types of waters, you’ll be needing an endless assortment of flies. Best suggestion perhaps is to get to where you’re goin and ask the locals " what’er they eatin’?
Mark
I’d rather be in Wyoming!
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Indy,
I will never travel to any high mountain lake without the fast sinking scud and mega scud again. I started using them a couple years ago and they are awesome. The pattern is by rich osthoff (sp may not be right). His book “the fly fishers guide to the rocky mountain backountry” is in my opinion the best of its kind. Where are you planning on going?
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Jim in CO
Good Morning. In my younger days LOL I packed into high mountain lakes a lot. What you are going to find in most of the lakes that are cold and clear there is not a lot of bug life coming out of the water. most of what works for flys will be ants and flys that live in the trees and visit the water. good old black ants and nats. and don’t for get MASKEETOOOS. Also if you don’t have a tube or some kinda floaty take a spinning rod and fly casting bubbles along. Have a great time.
Rich
I second Rich’s mosquito, and the scud patterns. I add a nymph pattern, the Wyo. nymph which is basically a Montata nymph with an orangish body instead of yellow, sizes 12, 14 ,16.
I also use a lot of the deer hair irristables and add the bivisible and one tied with grizzly hackle like the bivisible, can’t remember its name.
If you happen to be around Rock Springs, give me a call!
Wyo-blizzard
I would add a black rubber legs in size 10 and buggers in 10 - 14. As mentioned scuds work great and I would also add a few chiromonid larva patterns as well. That pretty much sums up my nymph and streamer fly box for alpine lakes. For dries I might suggest an adams in 14-20 and some lakes have decent caddis hatches so an elk hair caddis is also included.for midges, I use a sprout emerger in 14-22 depending on the size. Just my preferences, everyone has their own.
Take care everyone and cya around. Mark
Since you haven’t been around for a while, you’ve probably missed the series of articles we did from Gary LaFontaines Fly Fishing
the Mountain Lakes…it starts here: [url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/lakes/part77.html:19349]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/lakes/part77.html[/url:19349]
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That book that LF mentiones is one of the best informational fly fishing books you will ever read. All you really need for the less pressured high mountain lakes is a size 10 black bead head wooly bugger.
Ditto what Bostonangler said!