New flies

[walksinwater]

With the year drawing to a close on some great fishing, I was pondering a question.

What flyes have you come across that are new to your vise this year?
(olde patterns or new patterns.)

Just the ones when you began to fish with it, caught a fish within 3 casts. Thereafter consistently produced fish (Large, small, quantity of fish and variety of species).
And were versitile and effective in other waters. A fly that which once tyed on, would probably stay on for the rest of the day, until shredded or lost.



What I found as new flyes for me this year were:

Chilli Pepper, which was qreat in Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Georgia for trout, LM bass, blue gill, catfish.

Theo's yellow sally, proved excellent for trout, LM bass, White bass, crappie, and carp.

Pazooka, an early 20th century flye that trout of various species enjoyed in Utah and Georgia, along with some blue gill and bass.


So what were your discoveries?

[FlySmyth]

Syls Midge, used it on several waters and produced except in rare conditions.

Thread Midge, produced every time except lately.

Mohair Leech, several colors good results.

FlySmyth.

PS Longer is the list of flies that did not produce.

[Larry S.]

For what little I did this past year I did revert back to some old proven patterns such as the Partridge and Orange (and P.& Green, etc.).

What I did find interesting was when I was looking at my 2004 copy of the Kaufman's catalog I noticed a "New" fly. It was the Float-N-Fool which has been around for who knows how long and has been for years a great producer. They do give credit to Buz Buszek and imply it is not really new. I don't know of any other than Bob & I who use it (I'm not telling secrets here, Bob teaches it in his classes).

I hear it has made a comeback over in Colorado the last little while. On the other hand maybe it was never out of favor.

[cheech]

Last year it was the Olive Willey, but this year it has to be the Bunny Ears Midge. It has produced more topwater fish for me and Spearo than any other midge pattern this fall and winter. Oh yeah, and the Glo-Bug.

[Jason]

The Black Widow Spider (wet) for bluegill and bass.

I really enjoyed tying and fishing with bucktail streamers this past year. I did a lot of experimenting with new patterns and materials. I think Norm dubbed one of my bucktails as the Brother Maero Death Killer. Jaymorr can attest.

I also fished and tied a bunch of feather wing streamers, but had limited success compared to the bucktails.

[Fred]

The big change to my fly selectoins this year has been a greater emphasisi on streamers. In the past, I fished streamers mostly on stillwater and maybe 5% of my time fishing on moving water. The rest of my time on moving water was probably 75% nymphing, 20% dry fly fishing, 5% soft hackles.

This year, I probably fished 60% streamers, 20% nymph fishing, 20% dry fly fishing and 5% soft hackles (don't try the math on that one).

Anyhow, I paid my dues. I spend seemingly countless hours wondering up and down the river throwing different streamers offering differen presentatoins and coming up empty handed more often than I'd like to admit. But, I stuck with it. My last time out, I fished streamers the entire time and, although I did not catch as many fish as a good day nymph fishing, it was fun. The takes can be so hard sometimes that it nearly rips the rod out of your hand. That's fun stuff. It's also much easier to set up and throw a streamer when compared to a nymph rig.

That's the big change for me in 2003. I've been tying streamers like crazy. They're fun to tie and expirement with.

[Lonnie]

Bead head Z-caddis emerger. It was awesome in the fall when the Rhyacophilidae (green sedges) were coming off.

Anyone have pics of their flies? I would love to see them.

Lonnie

[Flyin Ties]

I haven't been tying long, so all are pretty new.
Had good success on a soft hackle with a black bead
tied behind the hackle. Took some picky fish.
Also the comparadun seemed to entice some finicky beaver
pond cutts.

[Minivan]

Not a new fly really. But I fished the color white alot this year. White Buggers, White Leeches, White Zonkers,etc. I have fished white in the past. But nothing like this past year.

[Tightloop]

The QUADRUPAL TUNGSTON GLOW BUG!

[FlySmyth]

Okay, I'll bite, what is a quadruple glo bug?

FlySmyth.

[Ouzel]

ago I ran across a fly and tying method in 'Fly Tyer' mag and was impressed with the resultant fly and how it was achieved. With a bit of practice and the right materials some really realistic nymphs came off the vise. Colors/materials can be changed to produce other realistic nymphs, all of which produce trout, panfish and bass.

[fish-hunter]

Very effective this time of year. I just take a bunch of glow bug hooks with me and a P.T. I catch a female brown with the P.T. (Preferrably BHPT and squeeze out some tying materials, then thread one on the hook, sometimes a cluster. Deadly! :>)

Cheech............fishing glow bugs?
LOL

Your bunny midge worked great yesterday! Thanks!

Fish-Hunter

[cardiac]

Originally posted by FlySmyth
Okay, I'll bite, what is a quadruple glo bug?

FlySmyth.
Flysmyth, if he told you he'd have to kill you. Cheech told me about Tightloops secret egg pattern. But I really doubt Tightloop will divulge even a picture of it. You'd have to go fishing with T L and try to butter him up.
Other than that- Cheech's bunny midge did the trick along with the Klinkhammer style fly.