Tube Troutin' by Timpanogos

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[cool][#0000ff]A lot of the colors I favor, and the patterns I tie, are "borrowed" from the stuff I learned while living in Sacramento and fishing all over the northwest and up into BC. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Coincidentally, some of my best fishing for early run steelhead...in the tidewater lagoons of the lower rivers of the northwest...was had by using a bubble and fly rig. Fishing those stillwater situations for "halfpounder" steelhead and "chub" salmon with bubble and fly was both fun and effective. I got a lot of strange looks from the "locals" but they turned to looks of admiration (or hostility) when I released fish after fish while they caught nothing on many morning or evening excursions.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have caught rainbows (and steelheads) all over the country and they seem to share a common trait everywhere. They love hot colors...and lures and flies that incorporate those hot colors. Sometimes all it takes is to finish off a drab colored fly with a hot red or chartreuse head wrapping. Sometimes a small section of body or tail in hot colors will dramatically increase the strikes. At still other times a fly of solid hot red, pink, chartreuse or orange will get violent strikes when nothing else seems to work.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Always fun to keep experimenting.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Good luck with the Colorado contract. Let me know if you get a hole in your schedule.[/#0000ff]
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