Your Top 6 Brook Trout Flies?
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CinnamonJoe
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Of course.
But, many feel certain patterns, through their own, or collective experience, produce better on Brookies.
Joe
Brookies and other Wild
Dries
Adams (regular and parachute, size 16-12)
Royal Wulff (size 14, 12)
Black deer hair cricket (tied differently than general design. Size 12-10)
Beetle (black deer hair. Size 14-10)
Light Cahill (14-10)
Hendrickson (14-12)
Wets/Nymphs
(Fished either by two-wet or three-wet. Very short intervals on leader between flies, mostly from 8 to max 20 inches, depending on construction of stream section. Stonefly fished individually many times. Wets occasionally or as a dropper setup. Dries mostly.)
Dark-Light Cahill (It's name because it is a darker version of the published Light Cahill pattern. Size 12 tied differently and alternate materials specific)
Stonefly nymph (size 12)
Caddis pupae (sizes 16, 14 personal tie)
The selection always depends on the immediate strategy for stream conditions, construction, flow and footprints in the trails and sands showing the day's and previous time's activities; and the other evidence of humans walking along the stream's paths, close-to and on the banks.
Tippet usually 6x, 5x to 4x depending, and delay strike until can determine the fish's apparent size. Want fish to be large enough for the de-barbed hook and to prevent most small trout from getting hooked and destroying their head and jaws.
Dries
Adams (regular and parachute, size 16-12)
Royal Wulff (size 14, 12)
Black deer hair cricket (tied differently than general design. Size 12-10)
Beetle (black deer hair. Size 14-10)
Light Cahill (14-10)
Hendrickson (14-12)
Wets/Nymphs
(Fished either by two-wet or three-wet. Very short intervals on leader between flies, mostly from 8 to max 20 inches, depending on construction of stream section. Stonefly fished individually many times. Wets occasionally or as a dropper setup. Dries mostly.)
Dark-Light Cahill (It's name because it is a darker version of the published Light Cahill pattern. Size 12 tied differently and alternate materials specific)
Stonefly nymph (size 12)
Caddis pupae (sizes 16, 14 personal tie)
The selection always depends on the immediate strategy for stream conditions, construction, flow and footprints in the trails and sands showing the day's and previous time's activities; and the other evidence of humans walking along the stream's paths, close-to and on the banks.
Tippet usually 6x, 5x to 4x depending, and delay strike until can determine the fish's apparent size. Want fish to be large enough for the de-barbed hook and to prevent most small trout from getting hooked and destroying their head and jaws.
