Colorado Brookie Flys

[Murdoc]

Hello everyone!

I'm getting ready to do some hiking out in the Goose Creek area in Colorado and I was wondering if anyone had any favorite flys that they use. I've got three or four that do good but I'm wanting to have some more ready just in case. We will be fishing in very small streams in the Lost Creek trail. Any extra ideas will be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!!!

[tippet7]

i have used small mosquitos, black gnats and griffiths gnats with a lot of success

[Liv2flyfish]

Hello everyone!

I'm getting ready to do some hiking out in the Goose Creek area in Colorado and I was wondering if anyone had any favorite flys that they use. I've got three or four that do good but I'm wanting to have some more ready just in case. We will be fishing in very small streams in the Lost Creek trail. Any extra ideas will be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!!!

I just got back from Brookie fishing in Wyoming and caught fish like crazy with San Juan worms in red, orange and shammy. They went crazy on them. Good luck and have fun.

[Murdoc]

Liv2flyfish,

That's a nice one!!! The ones I'll be catching will be about 1/4th that size! The SanJuan will be in my box for sure. Thanks!!!!

[Gavin]

Brookies are friendly fish. I usually go for them with big bushy attractor dries like the H&L Variant, Royal Wullff, Crackleback and the the like...If they wont eat those I go with small muddlers, flashy nymphs, eggs or worms (worms work really well). Nothing better than some fresh caught brookies with your eggs in the AM. Cheers.

[ozark trout fisher]

Parachute Adams, Elk Hair Caddis, and Royal Coachmens in size #12-16, plus maybe a couple wet flies (soft hackles are my favorite). Those high country brookies are rarely selective, although they can be easy to spook. You can use nymphs and small streamers as well, but why? They always seem happy to slam a big dry fished with any attention. I didn't really know how to fly fish when I use to live out there, but even then I could catch the brookies on dry flies pretty easily. They just aren't hard to fool except on rare occasions.

Navigating the terrain seems to always be the toughest part of fishing the high country out there.

And as Gavin mentioned, brookies are great to eat, and they are usually plentiful enough that you don't have to feel the least bit guilty about having a couple for dinner.

[Murdoc]

Eggs and fresh Brookies for breakfast. My belly is talking to me!!!

[Outside Bend]

Go to your nearest fly shop or fly catalog and pick out a dozen trout flies between size 8 and size 16 or so. Those will work.

Brookies aren't terribly picky, especially small stream fish. A good selection of durable dries and nymphs is all you need. If you want to target larger brookies, you may tie on a small streamer, say an #6-10 bugger, leech, sculpin, etc.

And when are you going? If it's soon, you may want to check ahead and find out how the runoff is there. Your best options may be tailwaters and/or stillwaters if the streams are blown out.

If it's later in the season, say July-August, make sure to bring plenty of hoppers and ants.

[timsfly]

I've never had a fly a brookie wouldn't try to eat

[grizwilson]

This time of year I would add a yellow sallie and maybe a olive damsiel emerger, the caddis and parachute adams are always killer extra oxygen is handy.... have fun

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