Currently what pattern are you having luck with?

[tcatmeow]

I'm still trying to get a feel for what fly patterns are working at this time of year in PA.
PM me with ideas if you dont want anyone to know

 

[Alpabuck]

hares ear and black wolly bugger

 

[bikerfish]

white,black, olive buggers, hare's ear nymph, hare;s ear soft hackle

 

[Hook_Jaw]

Black Nose Dace Streamer. Right now is like carrying dynamite.

 

[slay12345]

Caught 5 saturday with a brown bugger with a bit of tinsel worked into the body and tail. Fished for about a half hour. Most caught on a dead drift straight down stream, twitch in and drift back through the same area until it was worked over pretty well.

Brought a nicely colored up rainbow to hand with rosey cheeks and bright stripe down the sides, that particular fish also had a chunk taken out of the top of his back. Was doing fine, so I released him back to catch another day.

 

[goodfortune]

Either peach/orange glo-bug with red dot, or peach/orange sucker spawn, sizes #16 & #18.

 

[JasonS]

Egg colored globugs.

 

[afishinado]

There's not a lot hatching this time of year and the "what" is a lot less important than the "where", "when" and "how". Fish slow and low and try some generic nymphs, egg flies, wooly buggers/streamers, etc.

 

[Maurice]

In the past few weeks I have had luck with wollybuggers in yellow/brown (babybrowntrout) and gray. I like to fish streamers in the fall with the hopes of surveying my local waters to see what wild torut are left over from the summer. I usually do much better than this year but the water is particularly clear although higher than normal. I realize that my downstream approach swinging streamers is less effective than dredging low and slow but my goal is to go after aggressive fish and watch them charge my fly if I get the chance. (maybe this belongs in the streamer thread).

As long as the water temperatures are above 50 don't be affraid to sling a streamer toward cover, current seams or through the upper column of deep holes. Aggressive fish will chase.

This year I have not caught any large fish (>13") but the color of them makes up for the size.

Incidently, I believe that while targeting aggressive fish in the fall, you seem to get the resident fish (wild or holdover) rather than the fall stocked ones.

Here are some photos of my results.

 

[Acristickid]

The Maurice hold.

 

[whheff]

I have been doing well with a bead head flashback phesant tall in a 16 or 18. I usually fish the bottom with nymphs this time of year.

 

[Alpabuck]

Nice fish!

 

[Wildfish]

I'm going to go the other direction on this one. When the water starts to warm during the day small midge pattens can be great. 18, 20, 22.

 

[jmh159]

beautiful fish!

 

[jayL]

Maurice,

Is the 3rd one down scarred?

 

[Maurice]

Jes J, looked like it had been picked up and dropped by a predatory bird....eagle or osprey I presume.

For the record, anyone care to guess wild vs stocked?

Sorry for the hijack, I will split this away in a little while.

 

[jayL]

4, 6, 7 get my vote for wild. 1, 5 fresh stockies and the rest are hold overs.

 

[tomgamber]

ditto...

 

[troutslammer]

# 26 olive midges are hot , minnow immitation streamers dead drift , the browns are done spawning for the most part and now its dinner time , of course eggs and spawn and mayfly nymphs as well

 

[jmh159]

The last few fish I caught have been on big dark buggers. Black and black/olive.