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Hay creek
Jun 2, 2017 19:12:41 GMT -5
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Post by fishingpaul on Jun 2, 2017 19:12:41 GMT -5
Spent a few hours after work fishing Hay creek last night.
I got 3 nice browns and a a rainbow on black ants. Struck out on sulphurs.
I know these were stocked fish, but they were very bright and colorful. Must have been in the creek for awhile.
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Post by wader105 on Jun 3, 2017 9:28:04 GMT -5
I have yet to get up to the Hay, but maybe soon. Been too lazy and too much high water with all this rain.
Love the black ants!!! My go to dry (foam body with an orange tip for visibility) size 10 or 12. Do you fish as dry or nymph? I've never had much luck as nymph. Speaking of sulphurs - was out on MC last week or so and was mobbed a couple times by tons of sulphurs thinking - boy, I wish this was happening on the EB!!!
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Hay creek
Jun 3, 2017 20:18:41 GMT -5
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Post by fishingpaul on Jun 3, 2017 20:18:41 GMT -5
You named my exact summer time go to fly. I love the foam body
I only nymph in the winter (well almost), I fish almost exclusively dry spring and summer.
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Post by wader105 on Jun 4, 2017 9:44:39 GMT -5
i don't usually get a chance to talk fly fishing on this board, but it's actually how i got back into fishing some 20+ years ago - late bloomer looking for something to relieve stress and it hasn't disappointed.
depending on conditions and some variables (which is what fishing is all about - adjustments), my usual approach is to work upstream with the dry ant then a couple other dries to give them a change up - BWO, Adams, caddis. Then, maybe a nymph - beaded prince only. lately, i've added chart trout magnet - great replacement for green weenie. by then, i'm ready to turn around and work downstream with a small, bullethead wooly bugger (green only, maybe a black), sometimes a black ghost. that routine doesn't always work, but more times than not.
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