Crawfish, Crayfish

[weirdnjfly]

So I have couple different Crayfish patterns tied up, big question is how do I fish them for trout? Can you guys give me pointers, do I swing them, strip the?.....

 

[goyanks819]

I have caught trout on them by stripping. While smallmouth fishing I had hooked into a few nice browns on crawfish patterns

 

[lightenup]

I would try to make them act like a crayfish...................

 

[CTobias]

So I have couple different Crayfish patterns tied up, big question is how do I fish them for trout? Can you guys give me pointers, do I swing them, strip the?.....

Both ways will work. Stripping will have more of a reaction from fish since it is a natural movement of the crayfish when they swim.

Best bet is to just try both and see what works best.

 

[Trout Nazi]

So I have couple different Crayfish patterns tied up, big question is how do I fish them for trout? Can you guys give me pointers, do I swing them, strip the?.....

Ok, not to bust your balls, but let's think for a second (nice punctuation btw). We're fly fisherman, we posses deductive reasoning skills, right? Where do crayfish live? How do they move (when frightened vs. normally)? What happens when they're injured or dead? Answer these questions and you will answer your own question.

 

[skipper3245]

totally matters. Fast moving water they kinda just dead drift. Most of the year fish will always go after deaddrifted streamers. its an easy meal whenever no matter what the temps are like. I like to make alot of my streamers and crayfish look fleshy so it looks all beat up and looks great in the dead drift. slow water or static water of course strip it but I really like the dead drift on a crawfish

 

[Johnny Utah]

I agree with Skipper, and I like to dead drift but a little bouncing/twitching rod raise as it drifts. Sometimes the upward motion causes some very hard and exciting strikes. .