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If you go fly-fishing in Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey or New Mexico please send us your list of your top ten fly fishing flies that you use and in what hook size. This way other fishermen can benefit from your expertise and experience. It is nice to give something back to the fly-fishing community
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Michigan
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GREAT LAKES SPRING STEELHEAD FLIES
I have not really got a top ten but here are some pointers. Most situations are best dealt with by dead drifted nymphs and egg patterns, but streamers are also effective. Bright red or chartreuse traditional hairwings work well on Hook Size 6 to 8. Avoid bulky winged patterns which are hard to get down to the bottom and stay there. I love using the good old Woolly Bugger in black, Olive, or brown on a size 10 - 6 hook. All the salmon egg patterns work great tied on short shank wide gape hooks in fluorescent red, orange, yellow and chartreuse.
Andy Wood.
MICHIGAN FISHING
Black Nosed Dace size 6 (steelhead were hitting this like mad in October. Nothing else worked)
White marabou streamer with red marabou throat and silver tinsel body sizes 2 and 10
Foam Bodied Hoppers with indicators and rubber legs (for trout in Montana/ Yellowstone in September) size 6
Parachute Hopper with red Body (for western US trout)
Egg sucking leach purple body sizes 6 and 8
Olive chenille wet fly with black hackle and Cahill wings size 12
Popsicle size 6 for Steelhead and slamon
Glo bugs sizes 2-6 for salmon and 10 and 12 for steelhead
Inverted hook Sculpin with bead eyes, Rabbit fur glued back to back with white fur as underbelly
Sculpin Muddler
Matt Pedersen
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Minnesota
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FLY FISHING MINNESOTA'S BLUFF COUNTRY
Craig I sent you-in the tug hill section Adirondack Mountain's-section of New-York state where i live for native brook trout and wild browns and wild rainbows-i love fly-fishing for them-now that I am re-tired-use to guide for fly fishing wild upstate streams and have taught fly-fishing-still do teach a limited amount.
1-hares ear-#14-#16-#18
2-ph.tail-----#14#16-#18
3-stone fly-#10#12#14-bd.hd.
4-wooly bug.-#8-#10-bd.hd.
5-hares ear-wet-#16-#18
6-royal wulff-dry-#14-#16-#18
7-bl.wing olive-dry-#18-#20-#22
8-cahill-lt.-dk.-#16-#18-#20
9-hoppers-daves-para-#-8-#10
10-elk-hair-cad.-#14-#16-#18
Robert D
FLY FISHING MINNESOTA'S BLUFF COUNTRY
The top ten flies for our local water would be
scuds (14-16),
Pheasant tails
(12-20),
hare's ear (12-16),
BWO (16-20), prince nymphs (10-14),
elk hair
caddis (12-18),
woolly buggers (6-10),
light hendrickson -
sulphurs (14-16),
black wet flies -
a black drowned terrestrial pattern (12-14).
Thanks,
Dave (On the Fly Guide Service)
A MINNESOTA FISHING GUIDES CHOICE OF FLIES
For trout I mainly fish stocked rainbows and browns in some local streams here in Northern Minnesota, as well as a few lakes that hold them. Once in awhile I'll head to the Great Lakes area and fish Kamloops and Browns. My real passion is chasing blue gills with a flyrod. There's nothing like catching a 9 inch 'gill on a light rod and a popper. Bass, pike and crappie are also included in my targeted species, but bluegill is my mainstay. For them I fish the local lakes here in Beltrami County, MN. As far as my top ten flies, here they are
1. Clousers Minnow hook size 8
2. Popper Flies hook size 2 for bass hook size 10 for Bluegils
3. Mosquito Wet Flies hook size 12 - 14
4. Woolly Worm hook size 10
5. Golden Stonefly Nymph hook size 10
6. Hopper Dry Flies hook size 12
7. Assorted Caddis Flies hook size 10 -12
8. Viva Woolly Bugger hook size 10
9. Mayfly Spinner hook size 10 or 12
10. Beaded Gold Ribbed Hares Ear hook size 10 or 12
Take care
Matthew J Breuer
Northcountry Guide Service (218) 444 6479
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Mississippi
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Missouri
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FLIES FOR COLUMBIA MISSOURI
Brassies in many different colors, midge nymphs in many sizes and shapes, globalls in assorted colors, chenille minijigs multiple colors, thread minijigs multiple colors, cracklebacks multiple colors, stimulators, wulffs, light cahill, woolies multiple size and shapes. With regards to this order, your epoxy midge nymphs are killers on our tailwaters and spring creeks all winter long. The black stimulators work for our winter stonefly hatch. The viva woolies work very well for bass, crapies, bluegills and other warm water species.
Lynn, Columbia
MIDWESTERN USA FISHING
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My top ten flies are:
1. 1/100th ounce Chenille minijig with or without a marabou tail in a variety of colors like white, black, yellow, green, chartreuse and brown. they catch everything on a fly rod including trout, bluegill, crappie and bass.
2. Black weighted nymph, hook size 12 and 14. My most consistent trout nymph.
3. Parachute Adam's size 16 through to 22, good mayfly and gray midge imitation.
4. Renegade size 16 through to 20, a good general attractor for Midwestern trout.
5. Crackleback blue and gold, size 12 - 16, another good general attractor for Midwestern trout.
6. Tungsten beadhead zebra midge nymph red and black, size 18 - 22, good tailwater nymph for trout
7. Black Elk Hair Caddis, size 14 - 18, the only consistent caddis Species for Missouri
8. Royal Wulff size 10 to 12, excellent attractor for cutthroat when I get to Idaho
9. Chernobyl Hopper size 10 works in Midwest and Montana
10. Red and Black Spider size 14 tailwater midge emerger fly
Lynn L Kleopfer, Columbia, Missouri |
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Montana
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FLY FISHING IN MONTANA, USA
I normally only need a few nymph patterns, most of which can be fished in Tandem with any of the others. Important patterns are
Beaded Pheasent Tail Nymphs (sizes 16-22)
Brassies (sizes 18 - 22)
Bitch Creeks (sizes 6 - 12)
Gold Ribbed Hares Ears (sizes 14 - 22)
Dry flies must consist of Baetis emerger patterns and BWOs in small sizes.
Do not enter Montana without some Griffiths Gnats (size 16 - 24).
Elk Hair Caddis (sizes 14-16)
Adams Parachute (size 14)
Stimulators (size 10 - 16)
Finally for those times when no hatch is going on I add a handful of streamers
Natural Zonkers
Black or Olive Woolly Buggers
Muddler Minnows - Fred Hoover
FISHING THE BIG HORN
On the Big Horn River in Montana and Wyoming again #18 baetis are good all year long. A big pale morning dun hatch is there in July and August and later in the day a black #18 microcaddis comes on. Between hatches I use #18 Pheasant Tail Nymphs and #18 Scuds and Sow bugs.
Fran Perri |
Nebraska
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Nevada
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FISHING IN SOUTH WEST USA
Most of my fishing is on a local mountain river the Truckee River with some fishing on reservoirs and Pyramid lake in Nevada. I also travel to eastern Nevada and into California to fish some lakes and rivers. These are my top ten flies.
Prince's Beaded Nymph size 12 & 14
Brown Gold Ribbed Hares Ear Nymph size 12 & 14
Black Gold Ribbed Hares Ear Nymph size 12 & 14
Hoppers size 12
Black and Olive Woolly Buggers with and without beads size 10 and 12
Royal Coachman Dry Fly size 10 and 12
Eddie Burke
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New Hampshire
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MAINE & NEW HAMPSHIRE FLYFISHING, USA
I fish in Maine for Brookies and land Locked Salmon The landlocked salmon here are the same species as Atlantics but because they never go out to see are more like trout than salmon so I use trout flies.
Hare's Ear ( hook size 14,16)
Prince (hook size 14,16)
Pheasant Tail (hook size 14,16)
Elk Hair Caddis (hook size 16)
Safa Pillow (hook size 6)
Yellow Stimulator (hook size 6)
Green Caddis Worm (hook size 16)
Copper John (hook size 14)
Serendipity (hook size 16)
Adams (hook size 14)
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New Jersey
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New Mexico
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NEW MEXICO FISHING
I fish a lot of tailwaters like the San Juan River in New Mexico. The main flies I fish are small nymphs. WD-40s Copper Johns, Brassies and small pheasant tails etc..I try to fish with a dropper, so I tie something like a San Juan Worm as the first fly and then the dropper will be something small like a 22 or 24 WD-40
I also like to fish a size 16 PMD (Pale Morning Dun) or similar (parachute often as it is easy to see) and hang a dropper on about 24" of tippet with small bead head pheasant tail. This was a killer combination in Idaho last year.
As far as a list, it is hard to do just ten but here is a try
Wet Flies
WD-40,
Pheasant Tail,
Cooper John,
Chamois leech,
Woolly Bugger,
Gold Ribbed Hares Ear,
Egg Pattern
Dry Flies
PMD,
Blue Dun,
Various Caddis,
Grasshoppers,
Humpies,
Ants
I typically fish with yellow and red Humpies in size 12-18 with the most common being 14 and 16. As an attractor pattern it is amazing how well it works even when there is no hatch on. I have a friend who lives near the San Juan River which is notorious for its small flies, He rarely fishes anything other than a 16 Humpy and catches fish all day long. I may catch 15 to 20 in a day fishing wet and matching the hatch, but he will regularly catch 10-12 and never change his fly
FLY FISHING IN NEW MEXICO
My favorite flies are:
Gold Ribbed Hares Ear
Pheasant Tail Nymphs
Streamers
San Juan Worms
Princes Nymphs
Princes Beaded Nymphs
Brassie Nymphs
I use them in size 14 through to 18. I used your flies as soon as I got them in Montana and New Mexico. I caught several brown and rainbow trout.
Thanks a lot
Austin Jordan
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