top water terrestrial fishing

[trythisonemv]

I read an article in a dentist office once about a man who had almost lost his mojo for fly fishing. He had been several times and no luck to speak of. He recalled an old man at a fly shop talking about a muddler pattern, so he had purchased one. Upon arriving to the stream with no hopes he tried the muddler On the first riffle and much to his surprise he caught a fish... this story brought the muddler to my attention and I followed suit with the man from article . I then found Dave's hopper another spun deer hair pattern. Both terrestrial gold in my opinion. Its good to see everyone's differences and similarities on these patterns.

[Green]

Beetles, ants, and Stimulators. Lots of fun

[rFisherk]

I've always preferred Dave's Hopper for a hopper pattern, but I became a big fan of the black fur an many years ago (1970s). I often went to Montauk Park. Back then I was the only one fly fishing the parks and people would ask me if I was from "out east."

At that time, the branch that flows sort of along the entrance was artificial only, and it was the only place where I didn't have to compete with cheese balls. There was a pick-nick area along this branch, and one weekend the branch was covered with ants, fish were gobbling them up and I must have caught 100 trout.

I came back a couple weeks later, and no ants. Caught a few trout on ants anyway, but was somewhat disappointed. On my way back to camp that first evening, I was crossing one of the foot bridges over the branch. I was sucking on a piece of hard candy and it occurred to me to place it on the railing under the bridge. Next day I had another ant hatch and caught a lot of trout

[trythisonemv]

I just tied up some ant patterns for crane creek and roaring river hope they work for me they are easy to tie and I don't have much time for tying.

[dry flier]

I really like parachute hopper but also madam x

[rFisherk]

I like Adams, Humphys and King's River Caddis. I especially like skittering the latter. Occasionally, trout will come all the way out of the water and pounce on them on the way down: visually delightful.

[mic]

Griffith's Gnat has always been my go to fly.  Only problem is you can't really drop anything off of it.