favorite streamers for favorite streams/rivers

[ezlehappy]

I'm really into learning about streamers these days, what are some pattern you've found sucessful in streams or rivers you've fished.

Do streamers work effectively on small streams like Big Cottonwood and the Ogden?

[MOKE]

I'll take the bait.....I love fishing streamers!
My first and favorite is the Wooly Bugger.
I tie mine either nose heavy with lead or go the Bead Head or Dumbbell eyes method. I also severly over hackle quite often with Schlappen hackle. This is something that I do because it provides a fatter profile, while maintaining some ease of casting.
I also love to fish w/ Zonkers, and all form of "Bunny " streamers...leeches, bunny streamers, and "Bunny Bugger" hybrids. Mostly simple to tie.

There is a place in the box for Bucktails as well!
I like to tie a small Glass Minnow for summer evening streamer fishing. Basically a BH Bucktail tied small and sparse in a multitude of two tone colors. I fish these as Dace or perhaps Trout fry. They are very ghost like in thier qualities, but they seem to make the browns kind of snappy. Orvis catalog has these displayed.
Bucktails are definetly worth carrying.

I would probably be ridiculed on this board if I left out the Spruce fly family, though I havent fished one in years. These other streamers are that good!

This is another large category of flies. If you carry these basics you should be
in real good shape.

There are lots more that I havent listed.....And you didn't touch on technique, which opens up a whole different area, as well as more and different specialized flies.

Hope this helps, more than confuses.

OUT....MOKE

[ezlehappy]

talk about technique. I'm interested.

[Mike]

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[shazerblaze]

I'm a wooly bugger, mohair leech, and clouser minnow man. I have had more hookups on the clouser than any other streamers on a river. It is such a good pattern, because it is so flexible -- all different colors to match most baitfishes. And, the action is great, with the dumbbell eyes.
As for technique, down and across swinging for me. I may cast upstream, across, or downstream, depending on the desired depth. And then, I constantly mend up or down, in order to keep the streamer at a good speed. I always try to have a straight line between me and the fly. What are some other techniques you guys use?
Really, I consider myself new still to streamer fishing, but it is one of my favorite ways to fish -- pound the banks and hold on.