Fly Fishing

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

Hi,

I know there are lots of overseas fly fishermen on flies and fins who fish for seatrout. We have some seatrout (sea run brown trout) here in Maine .. and of course there are the sea run brown trout in Argentina. In regards to the seatrout that are so popular to fish for over in Europe .. I wonder what some of the top flies for seatrout are .. and what some of the "go-to" patterns might be? Are the flies typically small? Baitfish or bug patterns? This may sound dumb .. but are the seatrout in Europe, simply sea run brown trout? Do they run up rivers? I only ask because it seams that marcel and others who fish in Europe for sea trout often fish in open water and not rivers? Thanks for any help in clarifying the difference (if any) between "Sea Trout" and "Sea Run Brown Trout" .. and any help with some good fly patterns to use. Thanks.!

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

Searun brown means basicly seatrout down here, they spawn in freshwater and return to the open sea almost every year.
In Denmark there are a lot of commercial trout hatcheries so sometimes
rainbow trout escape and even these fish will end up in saltwater and turn in to bars of silver, never heard though that they spawn.

The seatrouts purpose of life is to spawn in the rivers so yes they do run into every freshwater drainage that they manage to swim upstream.
It is then logical that you would have a good chance of running into them
and when I see catch reports I often notice that big fish are caught.

Rivers are private waters so you need additional permits to fish there.
The rivers I fished in Denmark where quite small and I believe fishing for searuns there would be a nightgame because the fish are so wary.

The seatrout spend most of their life very near the coast, in Denmark you just need one state license to fish there so you have a lot of space to move around and search for the fish.
The seatrout roam very close to shore so there is a good chance you run into them, I really like to fish the open coast.

The most common fishing patterns I see are those used in the brine so the major imitations are the foodsources you can find at the coast.
These are foremost various shrimps, lugworms, small baitfish like goby's and sticklebacks. Then there are sandeels and for the big baits herring.
The big seatrout will feed on herring, I have never encountered a monster yet but will try again in a couple of weeks.

There is quite some film material around where seatrout patterns are listed and thus some patterns are used a lot because they are well known.
I believe firmly in pink shrimps and small patterns like the polar magnus that can imitate either shrimp or small baitfish.
For the night fishing I would use black flies like small black gurglers or zonkers.

peterdk · Location: Denmark

Hi Jeremy

it is allways cool to see a dutch guy explain the seatrout fishing in Denmark Laughing

But he is dead on! Smile

Thanks Marcel

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

That is because the Danish guy has no time since he is packing his
bags for the Bahamas Very Happy

peterdk · Location: Denmark

That is right Marcel Very Happy

.... leaving on monday Wink

Chernobylv8 · Location: Chile

Hi guys:

I need to let you know that Chile had a lot of spots with Sea Runs, the famous Rio Grande rise up river in the Chilean side of Tierra del Fuego. But i can mention others like Serrano River at Torres del Paine that have a Chinook Run too.

I think the best flies for Sea Trout depends on the season. The fresh the fish is (chrome) you can expect no bite, because the Sea Run never feed in there spawning trip. For that runs we use nymphs up to #10 hooks, black nymph, red butt, green machine. Once the season start and you have more fish in freshwater we use large articulated flies like the egg sucking leech, bunnys and salmon type flies. Depends of the day, the wind and the magic hour.

We use two hand rods, with floating tips, if the water is dark and to high we use sink type 2-4- 6 and so on. Also big boys.

Cristián