What New Pattern Has You Excited This Year?

Fly Patterns
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I’m excited to get it in front of a bass or two this spring.

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I didn’t really have an answer for this when the question was posted, but I witnessed something over the weekend that changed that. I was fishing a local park lake that gets stocked with rainbows every spring and fall and watched a big(4+lb) bass chase a 6inch rainbow up to the shore. The rainbow actually beached itself to get away from the bass, but after watching that I think I know what to throw to hook into some big largemouths.

I’ve been meaning to tie up some T&A Rainbows and some Swimming Jimmies for a while now and I finally did one of each last night before I ran out of white marabou. Can’t wait to get a chance to throw them there and see what happens. For those unfamiliar, I’ll post pics later, but I’m in class now.

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I have my first chance (in many years) to fish a western river this July. I can’t wait to tie on an FEB hopper. They look great on my vise- I am sure the fish will like them.

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I thought I would revive this thread from last spring and see if there are iny more patterns that have inspired you this past year. Share them here. One of my favorites which brought a lot of fish to hand this past year was one I was shown on my first trip to the Big Horn last May, called the Smoke Jumper. I have adapted it with both tying style and uses and fooled some stellar fish this past summer.

Here are the two original patterns I could find on the internet:

Here is my adaptation, which seems to provide greater and longer floatability as well as visibility:

And, here is why I think it works so well - take a close look at the bug in the surface film (not my picture):

Kelly.

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… the most successful being the Crooked Fork Creek October Caddis.

Click on the pic.

This pattern pretty much evolved from the FEB flies I started tying last year. The major difference being the foam extended body rather than the furled antron extended body.

Had some great fishing with this one. It will be in my fly box again next fall for sure.

John

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It’s not a new pattern by any means, but I plan on experimenting seriously the Clark’s Stone. You can watch Leroy Hyatt tie one on episode 403 on the following link;
Clark’s Stone

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I have been enjoying lately tying up the hackled skip nymph.

http://www.skip-morris-fly-tying.com/hackled-skip-nymph.html

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The last time I went fishing over the Labor day weekend, I really did well with a New Zealand pattern called a Water Cricket as dropper off a hopper or a stimulator. Had never done well in this stream before. Now part of my go to patterns. My hats off to those guys down under who turned me on to the fly and how to fish it. Many thanks.

Beaver

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Really nice ties.
Bruce

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Fantastic photo and fly. I had to really look to see, if in fact, it wasn’t your fly. I’m not sure what you added to aid its flotation, though. What emerger is that in the photo? I hope you don’t mind if I copy the fly. It would be great if you could post the pattern. What a photo illustration. It doesn’t get better than that for teaching purposes.
Bruce

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Kelly. I started looking at this with the original post and didn’t see the patterns you listed.
Thanks,
Bruce

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Kelly,

Wally Weise’s Clacka Caddis was a nice addition to the boxes this year; had high hopes for your Smoke Jumper and the Parasol emerger but we didn’t hit much in the way of hatches when we were in Idaho this September so that’ll have to wait for next spring. Also found fish ready, willing and able to eat John Scott’s PSC, it’s heavier cousin the Slumpbuster and the Sculpzilla. I’m also excited about getting the chance to fish the Skwala hatch next spring - Larry (sagefisher) gave me some good recommendations and I have some patterns that John Scott was kind enough to test drive this year.

Regards,
Scott