08-13-2003, 02:52 AM
[cool]FRY FLIES. Those are my generic terms for a range of small streamer patterns designed to imitate prevalent baitfish. I was searching for my supply...unsuccessfully...only to remember that in my generosity I sent most of them off to a fly flinger friend in Colorado...who has suddenly decided he wants to catch some warm water fish on a fly rod. Sound familiar?
I can tie up a few examples and post them, if you will give me a day or so. You will find them very simple. Three or four main varieations: silver body, gold body, white body and the new rainbow body. I tie them all on size 4 through 8 3X long shank hooks. The total length of the fly is only about 1 1/2 to 2". I use wisps of either red, orange, grizzly or white for the tail. The wings are usually hackle feathers...grizzly, white, badger or mixed white and dark. I do use a soft webby hackle in front, tied back. Heads are black on most, hot red on the whites, or sometimes black with a white eye.
Right now, on Jordanelle, I can guarantee you a fish per cast on a gold or silver fry fly, with grizzly hackle...grey for the silver and green for the gold. You will catch everything from perch to smallies to trout. I sometimes fish a tandem fly rig, with one of each of two different kinds of fry flies, on a sink tip line, in five to ten feet of water. Used to regularly catch big browns on them in Deer Creek...and large rainbows near the surface just at sundown.
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I can tie up a few examples and post them, if you will give me a day or so. You will find them very simple. Three or four main varieations: silver body, gold body, white body and the new rainbow body. I tie them all on size 4 through 8 3X long shank hooks. The total length of the fly is only about 1 1/2 to 2". I use wisps of either red, orange, grizzly or white for the tail. The wings are usually hackle feathers...grizzly, white, badger or mixed white and dark. I do use a soft webby hackle in front, tied back. Heads are black on most, hot red on the whites, or sometimes black with a white eye.
Right now, on Jordanelle, I can guarantee you a fish per cast on a gold or silver fry fly, with grizzly hackle...grey for the silver and green for the gold. You will catch everything from perch to smallies to trout. I sometimes fish a tandem fly rig, with one of each of two different kinds of fry flies, on a sink tip line, in five to ten feet of water. Used to regularly catch big browns on them in Deer Creek...and large rainbows near the surface just at sundown.
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