Tomorrow, if the good Lord is willing, I’ll be trying out a brand new trout stream, at least new to me. It seems the state of KY stocks a small stream just a few miles north of my house. I have been there several times and seen brown trout holding in the water, but I’ve never bought the out of state license and trout stamp before. Tonight though, I’m going to buy a one day pass for tomorrow. I have to work till noon but then I’m free.
Anyway, if you was me, what fly would you tie up tonight? I’m thinking a hopper some wooly buggers. whay do you think?
Wooly would be hard to beat if you’ve got big browns in there…the hopper might work if they’re looking up…but i wouldn’t leave home without
some orange, yellow and olive stimulators from say 10’s to 4’s…and don’t forget your parachute adams down to 16’s or 18’s if you tye that small…
oh and then you’ll need some grhe’s, prince nymphs, leeches, ( i’ve had trout slaughter leeches ) and you might try to find out what the hatches
are going to be tomorrow and tye up some of those too. It would be a shame to go there without some pale evening duns (etc) should that be the
hatch. Geez, then there’s the ants, burlaps and bees. I don’t know what the weather is there but yesterday it was hi 60’s here…day before 80 and
october caddis were out so if those are busy there don’t forget some oct caddis nymphs and dries/emergers/ovipositing female patterns.
Getting the idea? I’m not trying to be a smarty but it’s hard to say from here what to use and kinda the point is, take everything you’ve got then
keep your eyes open and if one pattern doesn’t work after a while, change to another, sunk or dry…oh and don’t forget soft hackles and flymphs
if you have them…swinging for big trout works well at times…then of course there are streamers…gotta love streamers in the fall. I hope some
of this helps and that you’re not mad at me hungNtree.
I would second the parachute adams, or a klinkhammer adams. I tie mine on a curved nymph hook. Stimulators would be a good choice as well, but if it were me in your shoes, I’d start with a klinkhammer adams…if you’re looking to use a dry that is.
Quote–PSC Pine Squirrel Cheater!!!–unquote
HungNtree, no offence to Flyfishfairwx, but remembering what you said about getting your screen name, I wouldn’t suggest using anything with the name squirrel in its name. You don’t want to do no squirrel fishing. LOL Weighted wooly bugger would be my choice. Something to match the color of the crayfish in the stream. Brownish-green.
LOL That’s a very good point George. Everything with a squirell’s name is now out.
I like your answer too MontanaMoose, I pretty much pack everything I can anyway, but I don’t get to do this very much, so when I get a chance I get real excited and tie everything I can think of. What’s really bad though, when I start tying, I usually start trying to tie one pattern then get to wondering what it might look like if I do this to it and wind up with something entirely different. Then when I get to the stream, I realize that the wooly bugger I started tying now has wings on it?!? lol Well, i may not be quite that bad, but you get the idea.
I can’t wait till tomorrow.
hNt
PS hey George, I usually tie some SHWAPF using squirell tail hair, you think I should leave those out? lol
Now what I don’t know about stream fishing for trout will make a large book but something a couple of successful Hooch fisherman put me on that has brought me my best success have been soft hackle flies. A gold ribbed peacock body with a partidge hackle and a caddis soft hackle. I would probably have a zebra midge or two along with a couple of prince beadheads and copper johns also.
Even in Kentucky it starts getting cold this time of year, not as cold as it gets in the Frozen Tundra of Minnesota. So this time of year all the hatches are done, so forget about surface flies, instead I would suggest Sculpin, and baitfish minnow streamers for along the stream bottom.
Since the stream is recently stocked the trout will not be that large, so I would suggest using smaller size streamer hooks, (#10 or #12). Could try some nymph patterns also.
I’m not sure what the weather is like in Kentucky but assuming that you’re a few weeks behind the northern states, I also don’t know the type of stream your fishing or it’s substrate … But you may want to have some BWO’s (they are around until December on rivers that don’t freeze up) and a couple of ants for top water (don’t expect much). Stonefly nymphs, Prince nymphs and some PT and Hares Ear nymphs. You best bet this time of year is streamers…especially for browns. Olive woolly buggers work. So does white, but that PSC (Pine Squirrel Cheater) looks absolutely deadly.
I live in Ky and fish Casey creek in Trigg CO. I have been fishing this creek for over 30 years. This time of year I fish a nymph with a Peacock hurl body with 2-3 turns of brown or black soft hackle, using red thread. Been working for me for the past 5 years, but if it doesn’t work I use a yellow egg pattern. Hope this helps. Mark
been fishing over stocked fish this week:
deep sparkle pupa (a caddis pattern) in olive or tan, #10
pink scud #14 #16 BHPT
and in the past, Jack Gartside’s Wet Mouse (pheasant aftershaft and a turn of partridge soft hackle) fished with little jerks in slow water
I have to work till noon 
but then I’m free.