Okay I’m curious, do y’all have any green flies preferably chartreuse and in the 10-14 size range that y’all like to use? It seems like the more I fish my local rivers the more I’m convinced the trout love bright green. If you’ve got any kind of unique patterns of that kind, I would love to see them!
http://flyanglersonline.com/flytying/advanced/part6.php here’s one right here Joe.
Take a look at these. The Green Weenie can often be productive. I’ve fished it as a dry and sub-surface.
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The green butt skunk is sometimes tied with more of a chartreuse than green section. Possibly a green egg sack added to your favorite fly would work also.
Pheasant tails with a chartreuse thorax do very well! I tie up a black pheasant tail with chartreuse wire and thorax that has come through for me a few times. Even adding a “hot spot” of thread right behind the bead can spice up a pattern.
For a dry fly, the Lime Trude is a great attractor.
Joe
Liljoe, I tie an olive wooly bugger which works well. I start with a 1x or 2x long hook. The tail is yellow marabou with a wisp if red marabou at the bottom. The red marabou looks like the fly is bleeding. The body is mohair yarn. I palmer yellow hackle up the fly. The hackle is not dry fly grade. Burying the hackle stem into the yarn helps to preserve it. I often Gink the top and sides and fish it on and in the surface. If you want sink it, give it a bead head or weigh it with wire under the yarn. It works on the Duck for brim and trout. I use it up to size 6.
I hope I get a chance to meet you soon.
Regards,
Ed
Small Western GREEN Drake I just tied, using dyed snowshoe and a biot body (smooth).
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Google ‘green rock worm’ and you will find a bunch of patterns representing the larva of the Rhyacophila caddis. As Joe said the Lime Trude is a great dry.
Come caddis time (which is from about the end of April to the end of the season here) green is a great colour. This is one fly I use a lot, based on the Green Peter, I’ve called it the Greener Peter
There is also another modern twist on a traditional wet fly, the Black Pennel. Its called the Dirty Wreaker and comes in two colour versions, red and green. The photo is of the red version but you get the idea (Sorry couldn’t find the photo of the green). Its a Black Pennel with a dyed red or green partridge hackle on the front.
One other that gets some use if the Highland Rough Fly in green.
There is one fly I make sure I am never without on the river. A green aphid imitation. Just a tiny ball of green dubbing which I usually put a turn or two of light blue dun hackle in front of, and sometimes wings of pearl tinsel. Though how important the hackle and wings are I don’t know. I have seen trout take aphids in the middle of a hatch of mayflies (danica). What it is about these tiny flies I don’t know, but they love 'em.
Cheers,
A.
I agree with Joe
Rogues are good, too
Regards,
Scott
Nice flies AlanB! Like your first one best.
Thanks guys for all these fantastic patterns! I really appreciate it.
LilJoe,
I don’t have any pictures, but I’m with you on Chartreuse being a great color for trout.
You can substitute it for dubbing, chenille, ribbing, bead head, and hackle colors on ANY pattern you want.
Some of my favorites are Copper Johns done with chartreuse wire, Hares ears done with chartreuse dubbing OR chartreuse ribbing, all chartreuse 'buggers, and leeches done with chartreuse Semi-Seal. I don’t believe the color of dries matters, so I use Chartreuse hackle, chartreuse parachute posts, and/or chartreuse dubbing on a lot of them for visibility. I’ve had good luck on the San Juan in New Mexico using chartreuse in some of the tiny patterns fished there.
And, if you ever get to fish for smallmouth, chartreuse is a must have color.
Good Luck!
Buddy
I tie theses in green,
Humpy, madam x, Turks tarantula and always the green drake.
For nymphs, green copper john, pheasant (in olive actually) tail and woolly bugger.
I fish theses regularly.
This is a variation of Craig Matthew’s Guide Seredipity that I use for the Mother’s Day hatch in the Eastern Sierras…it works…Mother’s DNA Dip…
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This is like a Copper John with colored wire that is crocheted or woven instead of wrapped. I call it a Copper Jacque, didn’t figure John would wear that color.
Alan,
Alas! I have never noticed a caddis fly on the Duck. I think the water gets too warm in the summer and has far too much in the way of natural and runoff nutrients. The graveled areas of the riverbed are full of freshwater mussels. It seems to me that about a quarter of the surface of those parts of the streambed are mussel shell.
Of course, it may be that I have simply never noticed an extant caddis population. I reserve the right to miss seeing caddis flies. 
I do like the idea of Black Pennel tied with olive floss. It is a modification which has been on my list of things to try both for the Duck and the Elk Rivers. PTNs tied with dyed-olive pheasant tail should be another effective pattern. BH HEN (Bead Head Hare’s Ear Nymph) tied with gray squirrel, dyed olive, instead of hare’s ear should do well.
Regards,
Ed
I do well with a Green Soft Hackle (Ice Breaker Variation).
Mothers Day Caddis (Pupa)
