March happenings

[BRK TRT]

A couple of outings in March produced some wonderful results.
The flies used were simple hair wing streamers. Some of them tied with bucktail and some with squirrel tail.
The bodies were floss of various color as were the ribs.







Early Spring and small stream wild brookies. They do attack these streamers.






Brk Trt

 

[Thursthouse]

Dumb Question - I've never fished any streamers like those you posted and I know the Mickey Finn is one very popular pattern - my question is how do you fish them? Just like you would a wooly bugger or a slump buster? - ie quartering away down stream/dread drifting and then stripping in at various intervals?

nice lookin flies and nice lookin fish

 

[GARYB]

Very nice bucktails, I like how you have the hair sparse which gives a slim profile like a real minnow.

 

[Barleywine]

I like those long shank limerick bend hooks you're tying on. What size are they?

 

[BRK TRT]

Dumb Question - I've never fished any streamers like those you posted and I know the Mickey Finn is one very popular pattern - my question is how do you fish them? Just like you would a wooly bugger or a slump buster? - ie quartering away down stream/dread drifting and then stripping in at various intervals?

nice lookin flies and nice lookin fish

TH,
I fish them just like a wet fly. Most times they will hit the fly just as it straightens out at the end of the drift. Other times they slam it just as you start your retrieve. I've had them take a streamer fished as a nymph, cast upstream and allowed to drift in the current.

Brk Trt

 

[BRK TRT]

I like those long shank limerick bend hooks you're tying on. What size are they?

They are Mustad 3665 #10.....and one is a Mustad 79580 #12

Brk Trt

 

[Future Fanatic]

I like those long shank limerick bend hooks you're tying on. What size are they?

There once was a hook with a long shank
that with its tail it did sank
it tricked a Brookie fish
as was the intended wish
and brought a pipsqueak to the bank.

I don't get it...

 

[BRK TRT]

Oh well.

Brk Trt

 

[Future Fanatic]

Oh well.

Brk Trt

Brk Trt,
I hope you didn't take my poem the wrong way.
I thoroughly enjoy your posts.

Did you miss my "ode to Brk Trt" from last year?
http://www.njflyfishing.com/vBulletin/f20-new-york-state-fly-fishing-forum/t25443-mimicry.html

I do miss the food, though...

 

[Trouser Trout]

Brk Trt,
I hope you didn't take my poem the wrong way.
I thoroughly enjoy your posts.

Did you miss my "ode to Brk Trt" from last year?
http://www.njflyfishing.com/vBulletin/f20-new-york-state-fly-fishing-forum/t25443-mimicry.html

I do miss the food, though...

FF, you are a great example of people who are not funny attempting to be funny.

 

[lightenup]

FF, you are a great example of people who are not funny attempting to be funny.

Sometimes...not often, he is kinda funny....:crap:

 

[Future Fanatic]

FF, you are a great example of people who are not funny attempting to be funny.

But my limerick got three likes and a thank you...
And did you see all the Ks I crammed into that thing? I mean Ks are funny, right?
Well thanks for the criticism, anyway.
I'll try harder.