Hey Bill, There was a lot of little black winter stoneflies crawling around. I'm not sure if that's what the fish were feeding on but they were pretty active sipping something off the surface. They were about the sise 14-16. I tried matching the hatch using small softhackles, zebra midges and caddis. All producted fish. The best fly was a bead head soft hackle as usual. That's always my go to. Even the big fish was caught on a bead head softackle hares ear type pattern. Hatchery trout can't seem to resist them.
Seems like a lovely trip! Nice for beginners also to catch their first trout.
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M.O.
Nice post! Love it when a plan comes together.
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ReplyDeleteThe colors on those bows are outsatnding. The stream looks easy to wade, my kind of stream. What was the exact pattern that worked?
Hey Bill, There was a lot of little black winter stoneflies crawling around. I'm not sure if that's what the fish were feeding on but they were pretty active sipping something off the surface. They were about the sise 14-16. I tried matching the hatch using small softhackles, zebra midges and caddis. All producted fish. The best fly was a bead head soft hackle as usual. That's always my go to. Even the big fish was caught on a bead head softackle hares ear type pattern. Hatchery trout can't seem to resist them.
ReplyDeleteLove club trips, that's how I learned to fly fish with NKFF.
ReplyDeleteMakes me wanna hit a trout stream.
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