First dry flies in a really long time

mike_richardson

mike_richardson

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I don't fish them so I haven't been tying them. My brookie trip the other day made me want to get back into them a little bit. I gave all of my dry fly hackle to my uncle this spring as well as hooks and such. So these "Works of art" LOL consisted of scud hooks, hares ear dubbing, some smaller saddle hackle from my musky fly material, and prong horn antelope fur. LOL talk about quite the creations.

I snuck out this morning before work and caught a bunch of native brookies on them so at least I know they work on low pressure, immature native brookies. LOL


I may get back into tying and fishing dry flies, but I am pretty much a nymph fisherman. I am going to get into rod building and my first rod is going to be a brookie rod. I just love these little guys.

Don't be too hard on me for these masterpieces. LOL

I will be using elk from now on. The pronghorn just isn't cutting it.
 

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What are your preferred dry fly hooks. I use Daiichi and would like to stick to them. I do have some fine wire scud hooks that I thought would work. I don't want wide gap, and I want them barbless. LOL not demanding too much aye. LOL
 
I pretty much only fish for brookies with a dry dropper, EHC on top, and beaded PT on the dropper. Fish this combo pretty much all the time when on a brookie stream, If a brookie wont take a EHC then it probobly wont take anything, I dont think color really matters either, Ive caught them with green EHC's when yellow and cream mayflies where coming off. Brookie fishing isnt the most technical thing on earth but its sure fun.
As far as the flies I would use deer hair over elk, just a suggestion, but for me its easier to work with and floats just as good if not better
 
Thanks man, have had that reference a few times on the deer hair.
 
Much like NewSal I like elk hair or Goddard Caddis. OldSal likes Adams wets for the dropper. When skittering your caddis it makes the wet look like an emerger.
Brookies in deep pools and under rocks are hard to take like this though and the PT will pull them out before the wet fly does.
 
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Stocked :lol:
 
And as far as barbless dry fly hooks, check out partridges "Surehold Lightning Dry Fly" series..

They have a more standard gape, and still barbless with a nice point.

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You can buy em off Kevin Compton @ Performance flies:

http://www.performanceflies.com/mobile/Product.aspx?id=37896
 
Mike - looks like you need a hair stacker to get the tips evened up. Also looks like a lot of the butt ends of the hair in the wings instead of the tips.

No experience with antelope but it looks stiff enough to use for wings on a caddis pattern. Might spin nicely for a muddler type head on a streamer.
 
Daiichi 1180 are good dry fly hooks.

 
Looks buggy.
I have gotten to really like using Antelope, it's a unique type of hair and not that easy to find - around my area anyway.

For me, at first they seemed a bit too brittle due to the hollowness, but spun beautifully. A thread like UTC worked better due to its ability to cover more surface area on each wrap securing the fibers better.
Some finer threads seem to cut right through even with minimal tension.

I got a black and yellowish/tan patch that I have enjoyed using for larger patterns (#10 and larger) like Letort Hoppers, Crickets, Stimis, etc. Deer and elk seem to compliment the smaller sizes much better.
 
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