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[coldfeet]

Just received my order from ReelFlies can't wait to chuck some fluff. Hard deciding what to buy, too many choices, I need to learn tying next. If you could only take 5 flies, what would you bring for steel?

 

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beadhead hares ear
san juan worms
mayfly emerger
woolybugger
blue winged olive

 

[mrregal]

Wooly bugger
Stonefly nymph
Yarnie
Gold head bug
Hares ear

 

[rocheleauc]

Buggers and stone flys

 

[Dozer]

Egg imitations?

 

[ChaseChrome]

LOL...all of the above EXCEPT the Wooly Bugger (after this past weekend where I tried YET AGAIN the bugger) a pattern on which I have yet to catch ANY trout...

Isonychia


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[jshannon]

Stones, haresear,hexnymph,buggers,

 

[fishermandan420]

nobody said egg sucking leeches yet? love purple ones. black stones with the rubber legs are sweet too.

 

[coldfeet]

Haha at least you have faith, kind of have a similar problem with a certain rubber frog, gets thrown on at least once a summer and never caught a bass in 20 years, but it looks so real.

LOL...all of the above EXCEPT the Wooly Bugger (after this past weekend where I tried YET AGAIN the bugger) a pattern on which I have yet to catch ANY trout...

Isonychia


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[torco]

definitely egg flies and nymphs (mainly stoneflies) of various sizes and colours

 

[despotiko]

Golden/Black stone size #10-14
Nuke egg
Black wooly bugger w/ black/olive crystal chenille #4-6
Smelt streamer pattern #2-8
And lastly i've seen steelhead do terrible things to a size 10 prince nymph

 

[ChaseChrome]

And lastly i've seen steelhead do terrible things to a size 10 prince nymph

Indeed, and even a #14 on the Elk...yikes

 

[Madriverfisher]

all those flies plus im dying to get out and try thesse tube flies hopefully some where will be fishable this weekend

 

[Graham Bristow]

Man I cant believe no body said the good old Pheasant tail nymph... I did see Prince nymph listed which can be a great steelhead fly,

How about the woolly worm,
or Michigan wiggler

 

[Madriverfisher]

graham your right the pheasant tail should be one of the tops i have never fished a michagin wiggler though i will have to look in to that

 

[Graham Bristow]

Hey Mad Fisher,

it's also know as a spring wiggler.. Black body was my favorite but the white body and orange body did well and in dirtier water the chartruese body worked.. this used to be my top go to flie in the spring.

check this out... http://www.hatchesmagazine.com/page/february2006/112

Graham

 

[ChaseChrome]

graham your right the pheasant tail should be one of the tops i have never fished a michagin wiggler though i will have to look in to that

It's an easy tie MR...you'll have a dozen in about 10 minutes man...

 

[ChaseChrome]

Man I cant believe no body said the good old Pheasant tail nymph... I did see Prince nymph listed which can be a great steelhead fly,

How about the woolly worm,
or Michigan wiggler

When I mentioned the #14 it was a pheasant tail on the Elk...big hen rocketed about 6 feet through a gin-clear pool to abuse this fly!!

 

[coldfeet]

Will be trying out Prince nymph beadhead, pheasant tail, march brown emerger, nuke egg, double bunnies, conehead zuddler, hexagenia, black stone w/ rubber legs hopefully something I throw at them will succeed. Saw a small hatch about 2 weeks ago some small black 6 legged critters all over the snow so I might try some black gnats.

 

[Graham Bristow]

Those little guys would have been Stoneflies Coldfeet. They often hatch in the winter months and I mostly see them on sunny days and sometimes you'll see them all over the snowy banks. A size 16 black pheasant tail nymph would work to represent them which is a fav fly of mine in cold clear water.