Gargantuan HUGE dry flies
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Gargantuan HUGE dry flies
#1Size 14 and under - need not apply.
I am beginning to skate monstrous dry flies below my local dam with great success.
Old school flies and new ideas with foam. Rubber legs do help the bugs float.
Anything and everything and then some with ripple wrinkles.
Would be interested to see some your favorites ?
Maybe even something too big to throw.
I am beginning to skate monstrous dry flies below my local dam with great success.
Old school flies and new ideas with foam. Rubber legs do help the bugs float.
Anything and everything and then some with ripple wrinkles.
Would be interested to see some your favorites ?
Maybe even something too big to throw.
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Re: Gargantuan HUGE dry flies
#2Hi Brian,
If you could, please post a picture or two showning your large dry flies a long side a #12 or #14.
Thank you.
Rich
If you could, please post a picture or two showning your large dry flies a long side a #12 or #14.
Thank you.
Rich
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#3Here is a big and relatively simple pattern I use for sea run browns
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3537834 ... 474825266/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3537834 ... 474825266/
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#5Riffling buck tail mice for Brook trout, Atlantic’s, and nocturnal Browns...I pray for redemption and absolution while compensating with a vintage Hardy 9 ft CC de France rod, a 3 1/2 in Bougle, and a greased silk line while sinfully dry fly angling with vermin.
Regards from the Restigouche...Jim
Regards from the Restigouche...Jim
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#6Besides that above, called a Riffle Bug in size 6, I've been tossing lots of Adams and Humpies.
Fun creations too like a Griffiths Gnats with foam under body.
But the most fun of all - wading in all the new spots to throw dry flies upstream to what I am finding are eagerly rising fish.
Unlocked a whole new bunch of water too. Fish are there after all - they just wanted a size 4 Double Humpy to rise too.
Using 9ft 0X leaders tapered down with two feet of 1X and three feet of 2X is unbelievable also.
No pinwheel or stretch when executed correctly.
The size of the fish blows me away too.
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#7That's what makes fishing the hex so much fun. HUGE dry flies, short 6' 0X leaders, and no tippet to worry about.
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Re: Gargantuan HUGE dry flies
#8and you can't see the take, just a gulp and your rod feels like it is going to be ripped out of the hands at times. (Don't forget the hordes of mosquitoes sucking your blood.)
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#9Prezackly! Ya never know what's going to hit. I was fishing the Ausable here just west of Grayling one night with John Nieman, of Razing Cane fame. We were fishing a sand dredge pit a few hundred yards downstream from his home. I heard the fish take, a big GALUMPH from the water, my rod bent about in half and the fish snapped a 0X leader by swatting it with his tail as he rolled back into the depths. John and I both stood there slack jawed. Took less than 5 seconds for all that to happen. All John said was,"big fish..."
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#10Yep. That's pretty much the way it happened...except it was more like GALUMPH..."WHOA! WHOA! WHOAAA!" Snap! If I remeber correctly prodigious amounts of alcohol were employed shortly thereafter.Titelines wrote: ↑09/01/22 11:18Prezackly! Ya never know what's going to hit. I was fishing the Ausable here just west of Grayling one night with John Nieman, of Razing Cane fame. We were fishing a sand dredge pit a few hundred yards downstream from his home. I heard the fish take, a big GALUMPH from the water, my rod bent about in half and the fish snapped a 0X leader by swatting it with his tail as he rolled back into the depths. John and I both stood there slack jawed. Took less than 5 seconds for all that to happen. All John said was,"big fish..."
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#12My thoughts remember using a Partridge hook, but my buddy says it was a Mustad.
The round rubber legs are necessary.
And how do I keep the white calf tail locked in there ? Oh I remember now. (Super Glue)
The black round long foam post can be anything better than what we used.
I see these fish move from 6 feet deep sometimes to inhale this fly.
My 9 foot Granger is doing just fine if the wind ain't crazy.
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Re: Gargantuan HUGE dry flies
#13Morten,
That looks like the infamous Fomus Skaterae fly of the Pinkadae family.
That looks like the infamous Fomus Skaterae fly of the Pinkadae family.
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#14I regularly fish a size 8 2x long Rusty Spinner on the upper Delaware system when March Browns, Green Drakes and Isonychia are around. Works especially well after the sun sets.
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