Streamers?

[MattBoyer]

Paul, that big rainbow you put me on on spring last year was caught on a size 12 or 14 muddler. I've found that if you are using smaller streamers it helps to dead drift them through the lanes, then pick them up and fish them as streamers at the end of the swing. I get more takes dead drifting smaller ones than I do bigger ones, although after the swing the bigger ones are more effective, so it's kind of a compromise for me, but it keeps the fly in the water longer per cast, so that's how I do it.

Boyer

 

[Fishidiot]

I agree with Matt. Small streamers are deadly fished dead drift.

 

[PaulG]

Looks like I maybe able to give all this advice a shot tomorrow!

Thanks

PaulG

 

[yea-who]

Hold on a minute !!!!!!
Size 2, 4, 6, 8.
Your talking about the gap size ?
Those are big hooks.
Big fish eat big things, i understand that. But are these streamer, that keep steel refineries open, intended for trout or hammerhead sharks ?
You can tow a John Deere tractor with a size 2-4xl hook.
If these mega streamers are for state record trout i have to start fishing where you do !

 

[hammertime]

front hook #2
rear hook#4

I think there's too much hook shank when tying on size 2,4,6 especially when they are 4xl. I stick with 2xl. I think when the trout shakes it head, a big 4xl hook moves too much and wiggles its way out.

If I want a big streamer I'll use a tandam. Gives it better action as well.

 

[Chaz]

I like my streamers big and fat, # 10 and larger with the tail being as long as the body.

 

[Hook_Jaw]

In Penns I use a #2 dace pattern. You get alot of action alot of turns and thrashes at it. I caught numerous large trout +17 in penns high off color water last year on this pattern and also lost a trout that when it turned and took the minnow looked like a striped bass from the ocean the size it was lol.

 

[jayL]

yea-who wrote:
Hold on a minute !!!!!!
Size 2, 4, 6, 8.
Your talking about the gap size ?
Those are big hooks.
Big fish eat big things, i understand that. But are these streamer, that keep steel refineries open, intended for trout or hammerhead sharks ?
You can tow a John Deere tractor with a size 2-4xl hook.
If these mega streamers are for state record trout i have to start fishing where you do !

Yes, 5 or 6 inch long streamers. They work well. Never underestimate the predatory instinct of wild brown trout. I caught a ton of rainbows on them out west, too.

Where am I fishing them? Spring creek, penns creek, fishing creek, and a few others...

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

Look at this picture. Its a size 10 bugger with a 2 inch trout attached to it. Going by that you could catch a 10 inch trout on a 5 inch streamer or a 20 incher in a 10 inch streamer ;-)

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t76/salvelinusfontinalis/toms%20run%20cumberland/HPIM0772.jpg

 

[pcray1231]

In my baitfishing days, I fished live minnows A LOT. Trout hit the tail or midsection, and just putting the hook through the lips resulted in a lot of missed fish. Among minnow guys, there are several ways around this. Stringing minnows is highly effective and popular, but results in dead minnows. Minnow rigs use two hooks, one through the lips and one hooked externally in the tail. They're a pain, but they work and keep the minnow alive.

Anyway, the point is a trout hits the back end or mid section of a minnow more often than the head, and this is well known to the point where various methods have been developed to counter it. I would assume the same is true of streamers.

 

[JakesLeakyWaders]

I know trout hit big streamers for one reason. I've caught them on even bigger spin tackle back before I started fly fishing.

When I first moved to Northeastern PA, the old man who had lived in the farm house explained that he occassionally tossed a worm in the little brook in the back yard and pulled out dinner. Being 14 years old I thought he was full of it. It was my first day at the new house and my family had come up to help us move in.

I found my Zebco outfit (don't laugh), with a 5"inch silver and black original Rapala and tossed it under the wooden plank bridge that led to the old barn. It had rained steady that week and the water was high and off color. Bam, first cast and I had caught my first brook trout, on a huge silver rapala. The trout went about 12 inches and unfortunately it managed to swallow half of the rapala and a bunch of trebles. So, yes I have eaten a brook trout, but I didn't plan it that way, in fact I didn't really expect to catch anything.

The largest brook trout I have ever caught was in a beaver pond, and I caught it on a Rat'l Trap, a big heavy fat silver lure with trebles and a bunch of steel balls inside. The truth is I was actually fishing for bass, and that's what I thought I had hooked.

It is funny that while I lived in an area full of brook trout, all I wanted was to catch bass and now I live in in an area full of bass and all I want to do is catch trout.