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how do u fish them what do thay imitate can u fish them by ther self i know thay work for blue gills but what about trout
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troutbert wrote:
One of the very most effective flies for wild trout. I prefer the older names: Green Inchworms or Sinking Inchworms.
They imitate inchworms and green caddis larvae.
There are many ways to fish them. One way is to just fish them as a nymph. Put some weight, splitshot etc. roughly a foot above the fly and drift through runs and pocket-water and into pools.
On small freestone streams, in the summer and fall, I fish them more as a terrestrial. That is, I often fish them without splitshot just casting them to likely places much as you would fish other terrestrial patterns, such as beetles. Fish often hit them as soon as they hit the water. I often tie them with a little fit of fine wire underneath the chenille so they sink without adding splitshot.
Because of the goofy name that someone attached to this fly, most people think of this as a sort of joke fly or junk fly. Most people are wrong. This fly is very effective for two reasons. One is that imitates foods that are available to most trout, inchworms and caddis larvae, and these foods are very attractive to trout, as they have no hard shell like most nymphs.
Two is that the fly is bright green and highly visible. The fish sees it right away.