"mdk77" wrote


wondered if you guys do. If so, then what
colors and sizes are your favorites for trout?

- Dave

Well, Dave, if I absolutely HAD to catch a trout, yes, if my life depended
on it and I was in one of those hypothetical "one fly" situations .... I'd
pick either a Zebra Midge-like fly or a soft hackle, probably a SH ...
you're looking good from my view G

colors and sizes? short answer would be to stay within the same ranges as
"naturals"

one of my favorites that I don't see much other than my own box is an orange
dyed PT body, fine gold wire ribbed, ( this combo has a real 'glow' to it
that I love and trout seem to like ;-), and any of several choices for
hackle ... size #14 is a good, single choice

yellow and gray phase partridge ... #16

muskrat and gray phase partridge ... #18

OR

be creative, damn near any combination that seems good to you .... in the
#8/ 10 down to damn small range ... however don't tie more than a couple of
any given whimsy until you test it and get Mr. Trout's approval


AND,

don't get B.Sed into believing there is "one right way" to fish SH flies ...
they work on the swing ( like a soft hackle :-), with split shot like a
nymph, fluffed up with Frog's Fanny and fished in the film to risers like a
dry, and slowly stripped in like a nymph/streamer would be in a stillwater
/backwater .... and I've caught fish with the fly just hanging behind me in
the water as I moved to a new spot, too lazy to reel in, or stopped to take
a picture and it hung there "motionless"


If your next post is asking about Brassies and Copper Johns the trout are in
trouble