The river is fishing well right now-- according to gilligan's (my new go-to site for fishing updates!) it's a good time to catch feisty browns-- adhere to the following method given on their site:
"Screw your chores tell the wife your going fishing."
Hey, they said it-- not me! But, I'd have to concur... so put a line in the water since, at my expense, I've verified the report. Ok actually I had a hell of a good time landing big rainbows yesterday and had one monster brown (that would have trumped my last) that shook the hook just prior to netting. Anyways-- I wanted to post the flies that were champs yesterday (the lead fly and the dropper):
Andy Burk's Aggravator nymph:
This is my version with red holo tinsel and a 2499spbl hook-- also I don't put
any turkey in for a thorax but rather just dub a big bushy collar and brush it back
MATERIALS:
thread: Danville black 6/0
bead: 1/8" gold bead
hook: #8 TMC 2499spbl (or #10 200R)
underbody: .015 in lead wire
tail: black marabou
rib: red holo tinsel with small red wire
wrapped over the top to reinforce
dubbing: Black rabbit (or other black dubbing)
legs: black sili legs or other rubber legs
collar: loose spun dubbing to push
legs back a little
Red tinsel nymph
This is a fairly generic nymph-- it's exactly how I tie my lightning
bug nymphs which simply have different colored tinsel and wire.
Essentially this is my "lazy-man's copper john"
MATERIALS:
thread: Danville black 6/0
bead: 3/32" gold bead
hook: #14-16 TMC 2499spbl (or 2487)
underbody: .010 in lead wire
body: red holo tinsel
rib: small red wire
thorax: arizona synthetic peacock
This is my version with red holo tinsel and a 2499spbl hook-- also I don't put
any turkey in for a thorax but rather just dub a big bushy collar and brush it back
MATERIALS:thread: Danville black 6/0
bead: 1/8" gold bead
hook: #8 TMC 2499spbl (or #10 200R)
underbody: .015 in lead wire
tail: black marabou
rib: red holo tinsel with small red wire
wrapped over the top to reinforce
dubbing: Black rabbit (or other black dubbing)
legs: black sili legs or other rubber legs
collar: loose spun dubbing to push
legs back a little
Red tinsel nymph
This is a fairly generic nymph-- it's exactly how I tie my lightning
bug nymphs which simply have different colored tinsel and wire.
Essentially this is my "lazy-man's copper john"
MATERIALS:thread: Danville black 6/0
bead: 3/32" gold bead
hook: #14-16 TMC 2499spbl (or 2487)
underbody: .010 in lead wire
body: red holo tinsel
rib: small red wire
thorax: arizona synthetic peacock
Good post, I plan to tie a few of those streamers for next season. Do you tie them in other colors? Variations?
ReplyDeleteOn a side note: what does your season look like? Are you fishing to mainly stocked fish or reproducing fish? Our season ends the 1st of Oct. and starts C&R Jan. 1st.
Yeah there are a few other variations-- check them out here:
ReplyDeletehttp://stevenojai.tripod.com/burkaggrav.htm
the colors show up strangely for me but the material lists are sound. I've never fished the prince version or the olive version but the hare's ear and the black have been good flies for me.
as for the fish-- lahontan cutthroat trout are the native fish for the truckee but rainbows were introduced a long time ago. Most of what I catch are hybrids (cuttbows) and are probably stream-born. They stock the truckee every year with cutthroats but you can generally tell if you are catching the stockers when you start getting fish that are all the same size. I've heard that 80 to 90 percent of the stocked cutthroats don't make it-- which would make sense as I almost never catch a fish that looks even close to pure cutthroat. I don't think the browns are stocked (though I'm sure they were introduced at some point) but there is a healthy stream-born population. Oh and there are mountain whitefish which are native.
recently they opened up the truckee to year round fishing-- and you can fish any time of day or night. It probably doesn't affect the fish too much since most people don't fish in cold weather or at night.
Hey man is that your fish in the Chum?, if so that's awesome, way to represent the T.
ReplyDeleteYeah it is! I hadn't even considered submitting it until I saw someone had submitted a brown from the truckee and it was a smaller fish...
ReplyDeletecheers