Saw some pmds in the air below squaw this afternoon
Maybe a cream caddis larva with black head would begood.
If I recall, your trip is coming up soon, early june. Should be perfect. LT's seen plenty of pressure, but the truckee should be fresh and shapin up perty. Always gotta work for fish.
Nice flies...
I'd have a hunch for caddis.
Just looked at the flows and the freekin master has the LT down to 45 and prosser up to 150
Man O man... you never know. Main truckee should be in good shape.
Good luck you guys.
Yesterday, I ran out to the river after work and had a good feelin until I got streamside and went to rig up and my box wasn't in my chest pack. Still pulled a miracle and caught a 10" brown on a lone pat's rubberlegs. Still had my big dumb fly box.
Today I managed to get to the river late, and grabbed a broken rod out of the back of my truck What the h#$%. Not meant to fish I guess.
-- Edited by lorax on Saturday 30th of May 2009 09:36:24 PM
Packrat, You have a good mix there. Any one of those flies has the potential to catch a trophy fish. I'm sure that everyone might make a suggestion, so here is mine. Green Drake mayflies should be starting soon. For a nymph, tie up some size 10 Hare's Ears in olive. Overdub the thorax area to give it the extra leggy look. That olive soft hackle that you tied should make a great emerging imitation of the Green Drake as long as you have some size 10 or 12.
man wish i had time to tie, between work, moving to my new place at the end of june, and my jeep just blew a head gasket, i have no time. hey packrat for some extra beer or maybe a meal bought by yours truly maybe u could tie my up some of those flies u got there.
thanks brian
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Been hittin up the LT lately and its on fire.nevermind the low flows still plenty of runs with many fatties. with the right fly you will have 10-15 a day!!
hey are the fish still spawin up there, even though the flows are low, they where still spawing at 60cfs when i went up there 3 weeks, but not as many as the yr before, wondering if they are late or what. didnt see as many redds this yr as last yr. really got me thinking.
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Ya rainbows are spawning and most of them are already beat up and spawned out. the browns are very aggressive right now and territorial. dry fly action has been epic!
-- Edited by RippenLips on Saturday 30th of May 2009 10:58:34 PM
I've been tying up a storm too. I'm not sure what's hot up there now, but I'll tie a few of those you mentioned. And I'll tie some Olive Hare's Ear, and maybe a try to tie a few poxyback Green Drakes. A few Golden Stones wouldn't be a bad thing to have either - I just need to buy some tan biots.
When you folks tie Olive Hare's Ears, what do you use for the tail? I had some Olive Hungarian Partridge around so I used that. I feel like the tails on most Hare's Ears are way too thick - no aquatic invert I've ever seen has such a bushy tail.
Man nice fly's Packrat. I've only used mallard flank for hares ear tails. Thanx for posting the pics. I've been kinda stuck lately on patterns and needed some ideas. Hey, It looks like the beadheads are gold beads ? When do you guys use a gold bead vs. a silver one ?
-- Edited by shon42073 on Monday 1st of June 2009 04:21:08 PM
Packrat, great looking flies. Just cleaned out a section of the box to replace what I thought would be the "must have" flies of the past couple of years for a few newly tied Bird's Nests. Not quite sure why I stopped using them as often the last couple of seasons, even though they seemed to always produce?!
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Shon - I tie mainly with copper and gold beads. I remember Tom Rosenbauer (who apparently brought beadhead flies to the US from Eastern European fly fishers) saying that different color beads are good for heavily fished waters, since any change makes your fly slightly different than another angler's. Not sure if I believe this, but Rosenbauer is a damn smart guy (and excellent author!). Vince
-- Edited by vince on Monday 1st of June 2009 10:37:24 PM
Glass Beads are where its at. go to a bead store and you will be in for a treat. hundreds of options and colors and so much cheaper than buying beads from a fly shop. I only tie with glass beads now, no point in spending 6 bucks for 25 beads when you can spend 3 bucks for hundreds! and the glass work just as good!
-- Edited by RippenLips on Monday 1st of June 2009 10:56:02 PM
I've used some glass beads in my tying experiments. They are cheap, they can add some sweet flash, but the weight you get from glass is nowhere near comparable to a brass (or tung) bead.I guess if you wanted a slower sink rate, or just want to change from the next guy, you can open up some serious possibilities with glass.
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. Still pulled a miracle and caught a 10" brown on a lone pat's rubberlegs. Still had my big dumb fly box.
