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Steelhead the fish with attitude, what do you put on the end of your leader to make them slam it? Heres mine 
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fredaevans
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Toss up between the "Otis Bug" and the Beadhead Prince Nymph ... better yet the first 'on top,' the second as a trailer.
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Mojo
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Purple Articulated Leeches, Freight Train, Purple Bunny Leeches, Purple Peril, and Green Butt Skunks.
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Tight Lines,
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Black_Ghost
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Hex nymphs michigan style when I must touch a fish
BG
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My go to has always been the pink bunny leech. Then add a couple classics (purple peril and polar shrimp). But a fly that's starting to be used more is the intruder. Well, i should say my modified intruder. Has worked pretty good. Now, if only we'd have a bit more favorable fishing conditions WHEN I'm able to go fishing and I'd be happy. LOL
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Black_Ghost
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Actually I have hundreds of favorites just like steelhead do, or perhaps thousands of different ones.
Here are my latest Intruders, not a favorite yet though for me.
Don't end up like Mr. Evans fishing the same old same old flys over and over again. Challenge your self with new patterns, the steelhead will cooperate, eventually.
BG
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fredaevans
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Quote:
Black_Ghost said:
Hex nymphs michigan style when I must touch a fish
BG
Great looking flies Hal, what size hooks?
Fred
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hillbillyman
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Here's some more of my favorites.
Edited by hillbillyman (01/07/07 08:11 PM)
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bighoof
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All of your guys fishing flys look awesome.(Had to put in "fishing" fly otherwise it could've looked bad  )
I wish I was more into flyfishing, but that's a whole other kind of $$$$$$$$$. But I like looking at " fishing" flys they are so fishy.
Hey hillbilly how much to tie up a couple in your avatar?
Can you drift a fly? Or is it too much of a pain in the a$$.
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Hoof, guys around Idaho have been drifting a fly behind a corkie for years. Usually they use darker colored corkies, and only enough corkie to float it off the bottom. They work. I used to fish with this old timer that cooned 'em that way.
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fredaevans
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Quote:
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Hoof, guys around Idaho have been drifting a fly behind a corkie for years. Usually they use darker colored corkies, and only enough corkie to float it off the bottom. They work. I used to fish with this old timer that cooned 'em that way.
I assume you mean on drift gear? If so, your right, one of the original 'terminal tackle' was the "yarn fly."
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bighoof
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Cool thanks Fred and Mojo, I'll keep a few in my arsenal!
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fredaevans
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:>)
Fred
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I keep a range of small black beads(2-6 mm) in my beads and corkies boxes while drift fishing yarn for just this reason. I can't tell you how many steelhead have taken just a black bead tho, suffice it to say more than a tag allows
There used to be an old feller (who I think has passed away in the last 5 years  ) who would drift a black bead after the sun got on a nice piece of water below a FAST falls and hook em like mad. He never did fish until the sun was over the treeline and on the water.
I never could manage to sleep in long enough to let the sun get up, let alone over the treeline at around 0900.
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Any of the following. The red lead head leech has put more fish in the shallows for me than anything...well, I can't say that, maybe tied with those eggs. But the nice thing is with that red leech is if the water has 6" of vis or 6' of vis it fishes very effective, big or small water. It's my #1 go to search pattern. My other favorite is that black leech with the cherise head.
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