01-08-2006, 04:11 AM
Where I live almost all the waters contain brook trout. Many only have trout....no other species....not even minnows. As you can imagine, the fly fishing is good from ice out till the end of the season. I did tie some size 28 flies. Most were "spent fly" imitations of black flies or tiny spent mayflies (small very dark fur spun body and hackle fibers tied crisscross on the thorax and splayed out on either side and 2 or 3 long hackle fibers splayed out at the tail). But I now don't go any smaller than size 24 on a 3/4 to 1 lb tippet. That's late in the season....usually an ant imitation. They are easy to tie and extremely effective. The trout sip them in and slowly move off to sip in a real ant or other tiny tidbit.
This kind of fishing is mostly watching for a tiny dimple on the surface of a lake, slowly and silently sneaking up in a canoe and intercepting the fish as it makes it's dimples on the surface. Most of the leader is greased and when the fish moves off with the fly, I can see the floating leader, at the end of the floating fly line, move away.
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This kind of fishing is mostly watching for a tiny dimple on the surface of a lake, slowly and silently sneaking up in a canoe and intercepting the fish as it makes it's dimples on the surface. Most of the leader is greased and when the fish moves off with the fly, I can see the floating leader, at the end of the floating fly line, move away.
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