Euro Rubberleg John

When you fish three flies in a euro rig, you want your middle fly to be the heaviest so it creates a V as the drift occurs and the flies all get down in the strike zone instead of just the bottom fly.  This fly is perfect for that as it’s likely one of the heavier patterns you’ll have in your box and tied in bigger sizes you can easily get up to a 3.8mm bead on these suckers.  You can even add some lead wire if you really wanna get crazy under the dubbing/legs section at the beginning.  With the wire body and heavy tungsten bead and the slim profile, it gets down deep and is a great anchor fly to your rig.  Most other anchor flies I use just get the flies down and don’t catch many fish, this one however, often outfishes the other flies in my rig out here in Colorado.  If you have stones in your river, this is a great way to imitate them and one of my top flies.  Shhhh don’t tell anyone