The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Annelid
Easy - 1-3 Min
Coldwater, Warmwater
These can have a ton of variations but the key is to use ultra chenille or sili worm materials (from squirmy worms) to make the worm/annelid part of the fly. Then using a beadhead or egg yarn/antron yarn, you can make the body/egg area. Mix and match colors until you find what you like the best.
Personally, red, pink and neon green do the best for me, though I know plenty who mix and match purple, blue, brown, tan and orange with success too.
Fish eat annelids year round, they will also eat egg patterns year round. This makes this fly an easy and cheap fly to tie that can literally be fished anywhere and anytime with likely success. It’s one of those flies that sits in your box and whispers in your ear “fish me….fish me!” after you’ve been throwing proper flies with no success for the last 3 hours. I’ve learned to give in faster these days and I catch more fish because of it. The tug is the drug right?
I think the only tip you need here is to fish it often and get it down deep in the strike zone with either a beadhead variation or split shot. Fish are waiting where the water is slowest which is often the bottom of rivers and getting it down on the bottom means more fish will eat your fly, it is that simple. This is a great fly for beginners because they have no preconceptions about flies they should or shouldn’t use out of propriety, they want to catch fish and you can throw this anywhere and if there are fish in the area, they have a good chance of eating it, especially stocked trout that seem a little less educated.
The infamous pink worm still holds the record for me on most consecutive fish caught on consecutive casts down on the arkansas river at pueblo in Colorado. 28 casts in a row, 28 fish in a row all on a infamous pink worm.
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Region: West, Northwest, East, Southeast, Midwest
Annelid Sizes: #10 - #16
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