![]() I will almost always have my second rod rigged up with a green caddis and something… One of my personal favorite flies and brown’s lovem’. On some logs you’ll see so many cases, you can be confused by what’s a caddis case and what is the wood. Green Caddis with and without a bead head – Size 14Ĭaddis are everywhere, pickup a rough stone or log and you will usually find cases on the bottom. A hook up version saves some break-offs and will keep the fly sharp a little longer. Bouncing a weighted crayfish over cobble stones will mean lots of snags and dull hooks. PRO Tip – look for crayfish patterns with the hook point up. Behind larger cobble, on the edges of current changes and in the cracks and crevices around rocks and wood. They are drawn to the same conditions as the trout. Those resting places for trout are the home to crayfish. Browns love crayfish, and if you think about it. Tough wading, but if the sun angle is right and I study the bottom I’ll see crayfish working through those rocks looking for goodies. My home water has a lot of stones averaging in size from a half dollar to bowling balls with most in the softball size. Crayfish – Size 8 and 10Ĭrayfish Fly – bounce it heavy along the bottom Straight up – the PT will get many more hits than the dry. I will admit I usually fish a Pheasant Tail as a dropper under a big dry like a hopper. If I pickup a rock or log and dig around into the crusty spots I always seem to find something that looks like a Pheasant Tail. I tie a little of both, plus I’ll add a bead head for added weight. If you look at the different recipes you’ll see PT that are skinny and fat. Pheasant Tail Nymph – Size 12Īnother fly I still tie for myself. Since that trip I’ve caught many more browns and I’m convinced that on those days when nothing else seems to be working, some rubber legs can be sex to brown trout. I caught 3 more brown’s in the low teens on a hot mid-day that should have meant ending the day early. On my second cast up into some wood – BAM! – Game on with a feisty 14 inch brown. I put on a Skunk that Randy has been developing. While the group fished the hatch – a hendrickson. Out of the blue Randy said let’s try something different. It was a hot June day, I was fishing with a group of 4 we had only caught a couple small rainbows on the Manistee River outside of Grayling. I was turned onto this fly a couple seasons ago by Randy Monchilov of True North Trout. A little secret – add some crystal flash to the tail. In the end it doesn’t matter as long as I get to feel a tug. Maybe that’s why it catches fish for me or maybe its just a great fly. The Woolly Bugger is one of the few flies I still tie, I seem a little less reluctant to toss it into a spot with likely snags. I also fish it as a streamer with a bead head for added weight. Fished with a dead drift bouncing along the bottom it’s a dead ringer for a leech. Woolly Bugger – White, Black, Olive and Blue – Size 8Ī solid fly, with a proven track record. I’m partial to a natural brown and white color mix, but have also had luck with olive green. I’ll let it swing with a twitch either with the rod tip or a 4 inch in and out strip to give it some action. I cast 30 to 45 degrees down and immediately toss a mend into the line to give this fly a chance to sink. On a typically outing I’ll rig up two rods one with a nymph and another with this fly. These little beauties in a size 12 through 6 are my go to flies. My home water is loaded with sculpin and I love tossing streamers. Rabbit Strip Streamer – One of my favorites for brown trout
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