I Need Some New Ideas!

[jdmidwest]

I have gotten into the fly tying mode again. Lots of free time till spring and loads of materials going to waste.

I spent all day Sunday with the usual go to flies and the staple go to flies. Glanced thru the last 5 issues of Fly Tyer Mag and did not come up with any new inspiration. I have been surfing the net looking for some too.

Seems like Streamers and Warm Water pattens are getting all of the news lately. I need something new and fresh for trout in the Current River, 11 Pt, or Spring River.

Any thoughts?

[fishinwrench]

Well, the trout are new and fresh, and haven't seen the old stuff you're sick of tying and looking at. They'll eat it.

I feel your pain though, I'm sick of tying the same ol' stuff too.

RFSN

Copper john

Psycho prince

Mohair leech

<heavy sigh>

....but they just keep biting them. Whaddaya do ?

[Lancer09]

Look up some of the different midge patterns. Rainbow warriors and other things.

Or tie some of those streamers and fish those.

[joeD]

Stop fly fishing and throw jerkbaits for big browns. The big fish want a meal, not a snack.

I get it. You love fly fishing and want to catch them that way.

Then tie huge, articulated flies in all white or black and gold. Then commit to fishing them all day. Yes, it is work. You'll probably see others catching dinks on the usual stuff. Be steadfast. Because your patience and persistence will be rewarded with a monstrous strike and a big fish.

But you won't catch fish at your bench. Tie something big and ugly and then get on the water and fish the heck out of it.

Look, I catch a lot of fish, and big fish, on the Current using a piece of plastic with three treble hooks on it. Don't over think it too much. Look where it got Pete Carroll.

[jdmidwest]

I am not allergic to the spin rod, I use it all of the time when floating. But when I wade small streams, I fly fish.

2 weeks ago on the Current, it was all dry fly for the few hours I was fishing between rains. I was using a CDC Hares Ear Caddis in size 16. They were feeding in the film on emerging bugs best I could tell. The daughter was cleaning up in deeper water with primrose and pearl nymphs.

Streamers are alot of work, but it is a good time of year in deeper water from them. I have 2 boxes of them.

I just cranked out 10 of the midge pattern that Drew posted a few weeks ago, going to try them.

Whats an RFSN Wrench?

[gramps50]

JD maybe something in here will inspire you. http://www.ozarkflyfishers.org/fly/flymisc/bst25flies.pdfit's the best 25 flies for Missouri compiled by Ozark Fly Fishers

[fishinwrench]

Red Fox Squirrel Nymph

http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/print.cfm?parentID=112

[joeD]

AAARRGH!

I thought you wanted something new jd? You are back sliding!

C'mon! Put your best Garanimals on, put a big ugly fly on your rod, maybe a yellow bandana peeking ever so much out of your vest for a little savoir faire, and get after it!

Fortune favors the bold!

[Lancer09]

4.5 inches of bottom hugging sculpin meat. On a 5 foot straight leader with a heavy sink tip line.

Piss that fish off enough and they are going to eat.

[jdmidwest]

Dam Wrench, that pattern from Whitlock is older than I am. People still catch fish on that? But good idea, I don't have one in the box. Maybe I will squash a Fox Squirrel tomorrow for some fur to tye it with. I have been seeing alot of them the past few days.

Gramps, I have about all of those in my box except for the jig flies. But, a bead head fly is nothing more than a fancy jig. I can honestly say, I have never caught a fish on a Kruse Leech, but I have one in the box and fished it in the past. I have done well with an egg sucking leech woolly.

Joe, that yeller bandana would look kinda queer with my nice pair of politically correct Orvis Advantage Camo non felt sole breathable boot foot waders. I have to slip and slide around the stream on them so rock snot does not get passed around. I might carry a bandana to sling my arm with when I slip on a rock in those waders and bust an arm. Or I could go rougue and wear my nice Orvis Breathables and Felt soles and skip the disco dance tour.