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Offline Trapper Rob

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Favorite Fly Pattern
« on: January 28, 2019, 07:29:24 pm »
What's your favorite fly pattern for trout, panfish & bass.
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Offline JEB

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2019, 08:20:37 pm »
Wet fly called a wiggler fly. Use to tie 36 an hour and sold them for $.50 each back in 71.
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Offline chamookman

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2019, 01:39:54 am »
Muddler Minnow will take all three  (=). Bob
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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2019, 05:44:19 am »
Sponge spiders for gills. For bass I like big frog patterns and for trout I like HUGE articulated streamers, 4-8" long with either a conehead or not. I like to target big brown trout on big rivers with my 8wt rods.
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Offline KHalverson

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2019, 09:25:09 am »
Quote from: JEB on January 28, 2019, 08:20:37 pm
Wet fly called a wiggler fly. Use to tie 36 an hour and sold them for $.50 each back in 71.
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Springs wiggler?
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2019, 09:57:44 am »
Quote from: PEARL DRUMS/PEARLY/PD/DRUMS on January 29, 2019, 05:44:19 am
Sponge spiders for gills. For bass I like big frog patterns and for trout I like HUGE articulated streamers, 4-8" long with either a conehead or not. I like to target big brown trout on big rivers with my 8wt rods.
Need pics … or it ain't true.  :)
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Offline Will Tell

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2019, 10:32:09 am »
Woolley Bugers will catch anything that swims.
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2019, 07:37:41 pm »
Jeb how do you tie a springs wiggler?
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Offline JEB

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2019, 09:12:17 pm »
Kevin, yes Springs wiggler fly.

Rob: not in a position/place to show you. Pretty basic materials: hook, chenille, squirrel tail, 00 thread  and hackle.

Tied a few others, Dr Tom and Muddler minnow.  I was in it for the money back then when we first got married.
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Offline Hawkdancer

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2019, 10:39:17 pm »
Don't fly fish anymore, fly rod disappeared! Too cheap to buy another one, but if I remember right you could get a lot of strikes on black gnats!  DuPont half wings work, too >:D )F( Woompf! (lol). For bait casting, I Like the jitterbug for bass!
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Offline chamookman

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2019, 01:57:23 am »
Caught lots of Steelhead back in the Day with Springs Wiggler Nymph ! Bob
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Offline JEB

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2019, 05:15:08 am »
We fished the fly stretch of the PM River with the wiggler fly. Took many steelhead with that fly. The largest I caught was 16 #s on 8 pound main line with 4 pound leader. Had to go light because the river was so clear.  Didn't have the funds to mount the fish so we ate it. Now you can't keep any fish in that area of the stream.

I use to tie some flies for ice fishing also.  Sold all my fly tying stuff so I don't tie anymore.  Use to make custom rods also. Still have a handful of Fenwick blanks to make up for the grandkids.
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Offline PaulN/KS

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2019, 01:05:24 pm »
Quote from: Hawkdancer on January 29, 2019, 10:39:17 pm
  DuPont half wings work, too >:D )F( Woompf! (lol).
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Yeah, with a long det cord leader...  >:D ;)
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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2019, 11:51:49 pm »
Rob if I remember right we traded a bunch of flies a couple of years ago.  There should have been a spring wiggler in that bunch. 

My favorite fly and in my opinion, the most versital would have to be the crackelback.
It can be fished in just about every way.  You can add some weight to them, put a bead head on and even a tail. And the size and color is pretty much unlimited. 

But the fly Ive caught a ton of fish on (trout and blue gill) is a chamois worm. Just cut a silver off of a car chamois and tie it on a #12 hook.  Make a couple humps in it and leave it long on both ends.  Looks just like a live worm in the water!

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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Favorite Fly Pattern
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2019, 04:50:27 pm »
Patrick I'll have to give that a try.
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