Last autumn, I landed my personal best trout. It was a 22″ buck brown. I couldn’t believe my luck. View this post on Instagram A post shared by BlogFlyFish.com (@blogflyfish) The fish fell for a brown Perdigón with an orange hot spot. It was in a shallow riffle, most likely grazing on brookie eggs. Or,
Category: Flies and fly tying
At the Bench: Wire-Weighted Flies
During Saturday’s Trico fest, I had really good luck with Ed Engle’s Sunken Trico Spinner while fishing for highly-pressured trout. Innocently small and slightly-weighted with wire, it sank gently down at slow seams and didn’t spook the fish. Engle writes that many savvy fish would rather take drowned bugs or emergers rather than dry flies
Prepping for Tricos
With reports of Tricos starting to hatch on the Farmington, I’ve been re-loading the fly boxes. Last August, the Trico hatches and spinner falls were ridiculous. One of the best flies was Ed Engle’s Drowned Trico Spinner (prior post with a how-to video here). It features a segmented and thin body from wire, which helps
At the Bench: Parachute Sulphur
I feel like I’m all thumbs when I make parachute-style flies. That’s because I usually don’t lose many dries, and so, I often don’t make them. I find that going very slowly helps. I also rotate the fly in the vise. For example, before I lash the hackle onto the post, I flip the fly