Trout success giveaway

BWO is an excellent guess (by both of you) . For the Rocky Mountains, BWO's can mimic Callibaetis and some Ephemerella and is a must have pattern. They can hatch from spring through fall and almost always can coax a fish from the depths.

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I caught a couple of fish with a BWO, including a nice Brown from a slow moving pool. But it was not the most productive fly for me. Excellent guess.

Edit: Elk hair caddis is a good guess too. Don't leave home with out a few. I did get two decent brookies on a brown elk hair caddis. But only two.
 
How about a bead head hares ear nymph?
I love the blade & wish I was up there fishing too.

Sorry, I don't know how to post a photo, but I know how to tie a hare's ear.
 
Sylvan said:
How about a bead head hares ear nymph?
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Another "go to" pattern for me. The soft hackle I mentioned before was kinda based on a Hare's Ear. I always have a couple in my box and tie 'em kinda like this:

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Good guess, probably should be the right guess, but I didn't use it much this trip. But obviously you know something about fly fishing, welcome to Bladeforums!
 
I don't know much about fly fishing, but I do love the outdoors. Was it a Murray's Hellgrammite?
 
Hey Mist, not a Hellgrammite. But I bet you'd like fishing if you gave it a chance. Besides, it's a survival skill. :D A lot of these flys can be tied or approximated with little more than some thread, dog fur, yarn, and a feather or two. I've got a fly pattern that calls for a small hook and two colors of thread:

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And it works.
 
Hey Rotte, I notice the crushed barb....:thumbup:

And it's 12:00 on the east coast so let me try again.

Turk's Tarantula ;)
 
Brennanscott said:
Hey Rotte, I notice the crushed barb....:thumbup:
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Not my pic, just got it off the web as an illustration. But I do crush my barbs. Lose a few more fish, but getting the hooks out is way easier....especially for the fish. :thumbup:
 
Rotte said:
Hey Mist, not a Hellgrammite. But I bet you'd like fishing if you gave it a chance. Besides, it's a survival skill. :D A lot of these flys can be tied or approximated with little more than some thread, dog fur, yarn, and a feather or two. I've got a fly pattern that calls for a small hook and two colors of thread:

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And it works.
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Cool fly, I do need to learn more about it. I like fishing itself and I've done a lot of it...just not much with flies. The few times I've tried "casting" was an issue because I was just using a stick for a rod sort of like a short cain pole. The dry flies I have are hard to work with in a breeze :)
 
Was it The Adams Parachute?

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I love trout fishing as well. This year was my first year ever catching a palomino trout was a blast :)
 
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Thanks for the try
Elk Hair caddis
Dan'l
Man I should have read the second page of posts in my defence didnt see the 2nd
So I will guess a Tom Thumb
 
since im from here guess i should guess

looking at the time of day i will say

tan elk hair caddis and mayde a pmd or wd40, i would also venture to guess you were also using a stone fly pattern of somesort maybe a bread crust or something similar

semper fi do or die
 
That looks like a beautiful area for fly fishing Rotte:thumbup: Man, it's one of my passions, although I have to travel a bit for trout now.

My top picks for that area:

Royal Wulff
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Yellow Humpy
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Parachute Adams
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My father's old favorite was the Royal Coachman:
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Oops, just noticed only one guess a day:o Make my guess for the day the Yellow Humpy!

ROCK6
 
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