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Topic: Favorite Fresh water patterns for the NW  (Read 8341 times)

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LandLocked

  • Herring
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  • Date Registered: Sep 2007
  • Posts: 22
Seems like everyone has their favorites for particular waters and time of year, what are your all-around favorites?

These are some of mine...

Late Spring and Summer:
Humpy - A tough dry fly and hard to sink even after severe flogging!
Irresistible - Another good deer hair fly with variants for repeated drenching...

Early Spring & Winter:
Black Midge - Small and black seems to be key when it is cold...
Carrot Nymph - Good in cloudy water

Year Round
Renegade - Works well wet or dry
Zug Bug - Real simple to tie and a killer nymph on Blue Gill or cold water trout.
Sheep Creek Special - Quite a few variants too...

-Bill-


ThreeWeight

  • Salmon
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  • Date Registered: Apr 2007
  • Posts: 584
If I'm lucky, I cram fishing trips in during work trips around the state, so I use a lot of different patterns.  My general go-to's though are a size 16 or 18 elk hair caddis (mountain streams, Deschutes in summer), a big black weighted Kaufman's rubber legged stone (year-round tool fly on the Deschutes, often trail a smaller nymph behind it on a dropper), and an olive wooly bugger in size 8 or 10 for lake fishing, and for smallmouth bass in rivers.