Great Streamer

[Jeremy Hunt]

This is a must have when it comes to monster browns. Thought I would share it with some of you die hard streamer fans.

[laker67]

A great looking fly Jeremy. What I would call "legs" appear to made of rubber or soft plastic. If so that would be an illegal fly in missouri's trophy waters. How about Ark? Any restrictions there for the trophy waters?

[Jeremy Hunt]

Same here, but there's alot of water that isn't, which makes for excellent streamer fishing at night. Tomorrow I plan on drifting 11 miles in the drift boat from 11pm-7am and working streamers along the banks. Should be a great night and we are finally seeing some lower water levels to present these flies in. We’ve been doing really well with this particular fly for the last month.

[drew03cmc]

Not only do the legs make that fly illegal in many places, but the stinger hook does as well.

Nonetheless, it looks like a fly that would catch some monster fish!

[laker67]

Same here, but there's alot of water that isn't, which makes for excellent streamer fishing at night. Tomorrow I plan on drifting 11 miles in the drift boat from 11pm-7am and working streamers along the banks. Should be a great night and we are finally seeing some lower water levels to present these flies in. We’ve been doing really well with this particular fly for the last month.

Give us an update on your trip. With a streamer like that, I would be expecting a big fish to hit at any time. Are you doing State Park down? Say hello to your Dad, for me.

[Jeremy Hunt]

I’ve had a few good trips on them the last couple of times out. We actually had more fish chase a streamer then nymphing on the bottom. Since the White was running 6-8 units for a few weeks I stayed on the fork. It was a fast float, but we would drift it three times in one day. The strategy has been throw streamers in the morning, the second drift we would nymph and the last one we would get real serious about what was in store. It’s been a great routine because if the White is running more then 4 units I would rather gamble with high water at the fork. Because the Norfork is such a shallower tailwater, when it does get high it’s still fairly shallow and I think that’s better water for fish to see fly patterns, especially streamers.

The other day we had a huge brown chase our fly all the way to the boat. If I only had a few more inches of stripping time…one will never know.

[Jeremy Hunt]

Give us an update on your trip. With a streamer like that, I would be expecting a big fish to hit at any time. Are you doing State Park down? Say hello to your Dad, for me.

State Park to Cotter or White Hole to Cotter. I'll let him know.

[Dave Cook]

Sillicone or rubber legs don't make it an illegal fly in Missouri. Those materials are not the same as "soft plastic" and they meet the "tied" part of the definition. But with the two hook points joined, it would be a "lure". If you cut off the leading hook point, then it meets the single point definition of a fly.

[Zack Hoyt]

I think the brown on a longer streamer hook(instead of the two) would be awesome for smallies or largemouth. It seems to mimic a sculpin or smaller crawdad. The two hook setup would be good for fishing panfish areas, that way you get the bigger for the larger fish, but the small mouth of the panfish wont cause false takes.

[fishinwrench]

Sillicone or rubber legs don't make it an illegal fly in Missouri. Those materials are not the same as "soft plastic" and they meet the "tied" part of the definition. But with the two hook points joined, it would be a "lure". If you cut off the leading hook point, then it meets the single point definition of a fly.

The back hook is simply a "dropper". Should be legal everywhere a dropper fly is permitted. Aside from "barbless water" where wouldn't it be legal ? You could alway mash the barbs or tie on barbless hooks....or even snip either the rear or front hook point off.