Stoneflies on the Creek!!

Lahontan · Senior Member

Stoneflies on the Creek!!

Otter · Senior Member

Have spotted several winter stones and a few little yellow stones lately. Try a size 16 yellow soft hackle to see if it works. Haven't found a good fly for the dark green to black winter stones.. They are about size 18

Emerger · Senior Member

Try this pattern for the little winter stone: https://vimeo.com/60000673

mike b · Member

I spotted some yellow sally nymphs the last time I was there. The weeds held a few scuds too.

bono · Master Fly Fishing Guide

yeah I've never personally had much luck matching the WINTER STONE hatch, so I quit trying.On the other hand mainly in the spring I have had super days fishing yellowsally patterns mostly un-named throwtogether creations that were assembled after at least 3 Sierra Nevadas. When myself and Ken Davis were doing the mud-snail surveying we found a surprising number of scuds on the creek, mainly small ones though about size 18-20. And thats another pattern that I've not had much luck with nor have I seen scuds in stomach samples when we were sampling fish for mud-snails.

vince · Senior Member

Anyone know what size on a Tiemco 2302 these would be roughly? 10?

Rossflyguy · Senior Member

Try a 20 or 18

Emerger · Senior Member

Yeah, they are really small. Have fun tying them!

Harris625 · Newbie

The stone-flies are the largest among three main types of trout stream insects. These flies can cause outstanding fishing, and on many rivers their hatches are the premier events of the season.

-- Edited by Harris625 on Monday 10th of June 2013 03:38:47 AM