07-05-2008, 08:43 PM
There's a lot of shrimp patterns and I already have some I rely on, and a few "experimental cases".
When this pattern made it's reputation there were huge trout mainly eating chub for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the Gorge. The standard trick to get in among them was to tow Rapalas behind a boat.
What intrigues me is that the float tubing guys managed to find imitative patterns that serious meat eating trout would take the time to lunch on.
I also find it interesting that as the monster FG trout faded away so did the reputation of this particular fly.
So not only was it good for really big uns, but it was possibly unexceptional for more ordinary sized trout, compared to the other patterns that replaced it as time passed.
A pattern (or size) that was more effective as the fish got bigger? A bug - not a fish imitation.
So my curiosity got aroused.
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When this pattern made it's reputation there were huge trout mainly eating chub for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the Gorge. The standard trick to get in among them was to tow Rapalas behind a boat.
What intrigues me is that the float tubing guys managed to find imitative patterns that serious meat eating trout would take the time to lunch on.
I also find it interesting that as the monster FG trout faded away so did the reputation of this particular fly.
So not only was it good for really big uns, but it was possibly unexceptional for more ordinary sized trout, compared to the other patterns that replaced it as time passed.
A pattern (or size) that was more effective as the fish got bigger? A bug - not a fish imitation.
So my curiosity got aroused.
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