The week of July 4th I’ll be at Unicoi State Park in GA with my in-laws. The first thing I want to do is play with my neice and nephew. And as soon as they wear out thier old uncle, which won’t take long:) I want to go fishing. My goal this year is to catch a trout on a fly that I tied. I’ve caught fish on my flies, but never a trout. Most of my fishing is warm water. ANyway, I have no idea what the hatch should be at that time of year. So, what fly or flies would you tie in advance? I’ve been tying stone fly nymphs, I read somewhere that was a good one for that time of year. I hope so. I know it’s probably an open ended question, but I would really love to catch one on one of “my” flies.
olive woolly bugger, parachute adams (size 14 if nothing else), ants (black and red/cinnamon, flying &/or otherwise) in various sizes, hoppers, a brightly colored attractor (royal coachman, parachute patriot, etc…), and dark colored attractor (can be dark wool/floss/dubbing/PT with optional tinsel/Krystal Flash rib and dark hackle & a streamer pattern or two.
I’ve been tying SHWAPF’s too, I’m not a very good fly tier and it’s an easy one to tie. I’m hopeing that will work as a dry fly. I can’t seem to hold my mouth right for an adam’s. 2 hackles is about one to many for me right now. but I’m working on it.
If you want to tie an effective dry fly that tis very simple try a bi-visible. Its just a tightly palmered brown or black hackle or two if you have short hackles and a couple of turns of white or grizzly hackle in the front. I use it as a good searching pattern even though I can usually tie winged flies on a good day.
Ed, Butterfly will be underfoot as usual. I’m sure she would enjoy some milk bones if they are accompanied with some petting. She doesn’t eat as much as I would like when we are camping or any time we aren’t at home so treats are good. Of course you know that she will not leave you alone once you have given her one.
The largest trout I ever saw caught came out of the lake there, a guy caught it with a food pellet the rangers dropped the previous day. The big brown maxed out a cheap scale at around 8 lbs. I would make a couple of food pellet flies. I have float tubed the lake once caught a few small bream. I can’t help you with where to go but there are some decent mountain streams close by, the Chattahoochee is there in the town.
Uncoi Outfitters are there in Helen, they can give you local advice.
I always go with nymphs first - easy to tie and 90% of the trouts diet comes from below the surface.
Copper Johns, Hare’s ear, Pheasant tail, even zebra midge nymphs (my favorite) is as easy to tie with black thread, silver ribbing and a wrap or two of peacock herl…they get gobbled up. You can do the same modifying the pheasant tail nymph and turn it into a midge nymph…I’ve done very well with those as well.
I know it’s probably an open ended question, but I would really love to catch one on one of “my” flies. 
but I’m working on it.