03-27-2003, 06:40 PM
Hoobie: The bubble fly set-up can be a real fish catcher. I have tied in a small dry fly about 2 feet above the bubble(barrel knot) and of course tied a nymph fly 3 feet behind the bubble.In a good fly riffle you can lift the front fly off the water an actually bounce it like a real fly laying its' eggs. The trouble with the front fly is that it tears loose many times with a large fish. So I used 4 pound exclusively on the dual bubble set up. 2 pound, my favorite, works OK with only a trailer.I have also found that a sparsly tied trailer moves through the water better than some of the larger bulky flys like Wooley Bugger'etc.I have my own creation made from the Sears Yarn Shop from a material called "Mohlon"(I think) When you tie, you reach into the big ball of yarn like stuff and pull out a pinch of fibers and spin it onto the hook shaping it likw a nymph. I used to make a fantastic rendition of a stone fly but have since made them very much less sparse. Just one or two fibers ruffled up work best. I found this out because as the flys wore out from use they worked better.I love to fly fish but this bubble set-up is a real killer on large rivers where you can cast 50 yards to places untouched by anglers. In the upper Eastern Sierra lakes the guys use mostly trailer flies from size #12 on down. They use very long leaders and retrieve the bubble as slow as possible.
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