02-13-2008, 03:11 AM
The Golden Stimulator on that page has a link. If you follow the link it goes to a step by step instructions by Charlie Craven. Here is Charlie's explaination of the fly.
"The Golden Stimulator is a more specific color variation of the standard Stimulator as tied by Randall Kaufmann. This variation matches the smaller golden stone adults so common to the Front Range. This fly incorporates a variety of tying tricks, from the tail spreading egg sack to the Uni-Floss abdomen and is both a great attractor and imitator. I like to fish this fly through broken riffles and pocket water or along the bank from a boat. It has a wide, fish attracting profile and really pulls fish up. Do not limit this fly to the springtime Golden Stone hatch periods only. While it certainly works then it also pulls fish throughout the summer months."
So the answer is most difinitely a YES.
I agree that they both are very similar which is explained in the story that goes with it. In the words of Dry Rod a "War and Peace" size story.
The Club Sandwich is a pattern that works well for a stone fly dry imitation. Also the Chernobyl Ant such as this:
[url "http://www.fishingwithflies.com/ChernobylAnt.html"]http://www.fishingwithflies.com/ChernobylAnt.html[/url]
Try a PMX.
In speaking of nymphs; the Twenty Incher was developed in the Gunnison Valley for the famous Salmon Fly hatch. Gunnison resident, Mern Judson's Judson Stone also makes a very good imitation of a stone fly nymph. If you have old copies of "Fly Fish America" magazines you will find the recipe and details for making the Judson Stone.
I have been meaning to try Eric Pepper's simple pattern:
[url "http://www.fishingwithflies.com/Eric'sStoneflyNymph.html"]http://www.fishingwithflies.com/...'sStoneflyNymph.html[/url]
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"The Golden Stimulator is a more specific color variation of the standard Stimulator as tied by Randall Kaufmann. This variation matches the smaller golden stone adults so common to the Front Range. This fly incorporates a variety of tying tricks, from the tail spreading egg sack to the Uni-Floss abdomen and is both a great attractor and imitator. I like to fish this fly through broken riffles and pocket water or along the bank from a boat. It has a wide, fish attracting profile and really pulls fish up. Do not limit this fly to the springtime Golden Stone hatch periods only. While it certainly works then it also pulls fish throughout the summer months."
So the answer is most difinitely a YES.
I agree that they both are very similar which is explained in the story that goes with it. In the words of Dry Rod a "War and Peace" size story.
The Club Sandwich is a pattern that works well for a stone fly dry imitation. Also the Chernobyl Ant such as this:
[url "http://www.fishingwithflies.com/ChernobylAnt.html"]http://www.fishingwithflies.com/ChernobylAnt.html[/url]
Try a PMX.
In speaking of nymphs; the Twenty Incher was developed in the Gunnison Valley for the famous Salmon Fly hatch. Gunnison resident, Mern Judson's Judson Stone also makes a very good imitation of a stone fly nymph. If you have old copies of "Fly Fish America" magazines you will find the recipe and details for making the Judson Stone.
I have been meaning to try Eric Pepper's simple pattern:
[url "http://www.fishingwithflies.com/Eric'sStoneflyNymph.html"]http://www.fishingwithflies.com/...'sStoneflyNymph.html[/url]
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