I am heading to Wrightsville Beach, NC at the end of the month and need to find some patterns for flies that will work down there. I’ve posted in the Fly Tying section all ready and it was suggested that I post here in hopes that Bonefishwhisperer would have some insight. However, I’ll take suggestions from ANYONE who has them.
Thanks in advance.
Standard salt flies would be clouser minnows and deceivers. Depending on what else you’re chasing you might want to try some crab or shrimp patterns and possibly some spoon flies for redfish. Not familiar with the area, but clousers and deceivers in a couple colors and sizes will get you started.
I’ve got some clousers, though I’m not too sure of how effective my tying job will be. I’ll probably try some crab and shrimp patterns though.
I’m not far from Wrightsville.
Other than the obvious normal salty stuff (clousers, decievers, etc…) I would definitely bring along a few size 6 crab patterns in a dark brown or an olive. Suckers are everywhere around here in the marsh, and I recently cleaned a redfish that had 3 of them digesting in his gut. This is probably the go-to sightfishing fly in the marsh over here. Look for high-tide, find the fish with his nose down in the grass, and hit him on the head with that crab.
Size 6 crabs? Got it. Thanks for the tip. The house we’re renting is a little farther back into the marshes, so hopefully I can find some tailing reds to throw flies at. Now if I can perfect my cast so that I can hit that guy on the head and not scare him too much.