Fly Fishing

Bryan12345 · Posted: Sat 04/16/11 9:36 am Post subject: Good Trout Flies?

well I want to start fly fishing and not quit to sure what flies i should use. Im more of a spinner fisher in rivers. Any good advice on good flies to look into, and what to buy would be appreciated. I live in Massachusetts and just going for trout.

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

Hi,

Get some conehead and/or beadhead wooly buggers in different sizes. Get some in olive and black. I really like olive the best. Since you already know how to fish rivers with a spin rod and spoons/lures ... you should have fun fishing these. Just cast the wooly buggers out there and fish the same spots you would fish with the spin rod. Retrieve them as you would a lure. Strip, pause, let them sink a little, etc.. If that isn't working, you can dead drift them through the pockets and fish them in the same way you might fish a worm. The wooly bugger is very versatile, as you will come to find out ... and its a great fly to start with and build your fly rod confidence. Good luck and have fun!

MidwestChrome · Posted: Mon 05/02/11 4:06 pm Post subject:

I go to school in Massachusetts and fish the Deerfield river a lot. In the winter, and egg pattern small nymphs a small white zonker patterns proved to work, but the best fly was by far the san juan worm (even though a lot of purists don't like them). the spring time its all about matching the hatch. If you go online and look at a hatch chart it will tell you what bugs are hatching and when. Then all you have to do is use those patterns and fish the right spots. My favorite fly to fish is a size 6 leech pattern. Any rabbit fur pattern will work with a little flash and you can either dead drift it or strip it like you would any other streamer. Hope this helps, Massachusetts has some amazing opportunities for fishing as you probably already know.

Patrick,
http://flybible.blogspot.com/

72Twenty · Location: Wyoming

Not sure about Massachusetts (I live in Wyoming), but one of the most fun and, frankly, easiest way to get into dry fly fishing is by fishing patterns like grass hoppers and Chernobyl Ants in late summer. Especially to brown trout. You don't have to be as delicate with your casting and presentation, and you are not trying to "match a hatch". You can get comfortable floating highly visible dry flies over fish and there is a greater margin for mistakes. It is a great experience builder, and some of the most fun you can have fly fishing for trout on the surface. You typically try to 'slap' these flies up against the bank and twitch them and generally make a commotion. The takes are deliberate and often almost violent.

Again, as I mentioned, I'm not sure how big hopper fishing is on the EC, but out West it is something I look forward to every year... even with stonefly/drake/caddis hatches, etc.

Good luck and have fun!