hellgrammites

[Oliver10]

What flies do people tie and how and when do you fish them here in NJ

 

[eddavidson9]

woolly bugger

i dont

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Brown or black woolly buggers in sizes 2, 4 or 6 is the hellgramite.

 

[JeffK]

I've tried all sorts of helgramites and the wooly bugger and maybe Murray's helgramite seem to work as well as anything. BTW, in my youth real hellgrammites were a fabulous bait. I've tried many flies, any none come close to the real thing. Most large helgramite patterns don't have the motion of a live critter, or the smell either. The only ones that are close in motion are buggers and Murray's helgramite. None have the smell.

 

[Oliver10]

I've tried all sorts of helgramites and the wooly bugger and maybe Murray's helgramite seem to work as well as anything. BTW, in my youth real hellgrammites were a fabulous bait. I've tried many flies, any none come close to the real thing. Most large helgramite patterns don't have the motion of a live critter, or the smell either. The only ones that are close in motion are buggers and Murray's helgramite. None have the smell.

Thanks. Would these be fished dead drifted along the bottom? Suspended dead drift, or are these actually rretrieved like a streamer?

Also, why under your name do you have two green dots when the rest of us have one?

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Also, why under your name do you have two green dots when the rest of us have one?

Because Jeff K is twice as smart as almost everyone else on the board. And four times smarter than others

 

[Oliver10]

Because Jeff K is twice as smart as almost everyone else on the board. And four times smarter than others

It has to do with reputation points. He has more than us all save Carble. I just took some way from Beetle for fun.

 

[topwaterkid]

Not that it means much but my best day of fishing in my life was on the Delaware River fishing with live hellgramites. My group of guys caught 72 fish throughout the day.

 

[JeffK]

Hellgrammites are dead drifted near the bottom like any other nymph. One common set up is two buggers fished like any other two nymph combo, with maybe a little more weight to get the bigger flies down.

FYI, helgramites turn into Dobson flies, which look a little like Mothra from the old Godzilla movies and can certainly give you a fright when they buzz you at night.

 

[DG138]

Pat Cohen has these pretty neat hellgramite bodies for tying, that and the crawfish ones look awesome.

 

[lightenup]

Hellgrammites are creepy!!!!

 

[Trout Nazi]

I've seen them tied out of twisted EZ fly and they looked pretty good. If you took it one step further and articulated it, you'd get more movement and also be badass.

 

[Drossi]

Hellgrammites are creepy!!!!

Dobson flies are creepier. Downright scary creatures. Hellgrammites are scary enough but then they turn into those creatures.

 

[Bruce Edward Litton]

I think I'd rather get pinched by a crayfish, than a hellgrammite. Dobson flies have long tweezers that look like they want to get inside an eyeball, if I remember rightly.

 

[mtthwnvk]

Dobson flies are creepier. Downright scary creatures. Hellgrammites are scary enough but then they turn into those creatures.

I keep an old dried out one in a box and occasionally show it to my kids. They shiver when they see it...


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