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| Genral Fry |
Jock Scott wrote how
A.H.E. Woods had great success with the Solar Salmon by sizing down the scale of flies and fishing them in the surface film when the water warmed and the sun shown in the fishes eyes, in his book,
Greased line fishing.
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| Redneck Mudler |
Our friend
Bill Bakke gave Mia Some of his favorite Steelhead flies for a birthday present. One he called a traffic ticket and the other a wasp. They were on size 8 hooks but tied like they were on a size 10! When Mia first tried these flies years ago she could not keep they steelhead off! We started tying lots of different patterns in really small sizes for our early season summer steelhead go to patterns.
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| Steelhead soft hackle |
This weekend was another testament to the success of the greased line technique along with a sparse and a small fly fished in the surface film on a floating line. Our favorite patterns have been very lightly dressed muddlers, Golden demons, Steelhead soft hackles, as well
Haig Browns General Fry pattern. See the video below we took this weekend:
Great video-- beautiful fish and flies.
ReplyDeleteThanks, It's really exciting to hook a steelhead on such a small fly, I love it!
ReplyDeletevery cool ,I learned about these type of flys last year when I ran into a fellow who was just catching fish like mad in one run. I watched him hook and land five different fish in one run,all on small flies sizes 8 and ten! I had been fishing with size fives and wasnt getting hit. Well that changed as soon as I put on a smaller fly and it was late in the season November! Nice post !
ReplyDeleteRight on Waywarddrifter!
ReplyDeleteThought we would share this note we received from Bill Bakke too:
"I am pleased that the wee fly is working for you as it has for me. It is exciting to have a huge fish take small flies with such conviction. I also appreciate your most generous recognition. I have two additional patterns that are working well, the Jailbraker and the buck bug, but of course you are finding that most flies tied small work well when the water warms. I have taken them on no. 18, and fish a 12 routinely. It is so interesting. But Atlantic salmon anglers have known about this a long time. For some reason west coast steelhead anglers have not yet discovered it, but you are changing that."