The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Easy - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
This fly is an explicit fly for a certain type of fishing that happens on a select few rivers across the western United States. The only thing that you can really change with this fly is the materials that are used, unless you want to use glow in the dark materials. Since these shrimp are mostly translucent, the thinner and less materials used, the better. The only material addition that could be considered is wire or a thin skin back, as these are still shrimp that have a hard exoskeleton with distinct ribbing. This can also be done using UV resin.
On those days in the troutlets of Silverthorne or below Rudi Reservoir in the toilet bowl where you just can’t seem to figure out what those darn trout are eating, it’s more than likely about a pound of these things. This fly imitates something that is not found in much of the United States and does it well. This is the mysis shrimp. A simple pattern for this little freshwater shrimp can be the difference in landing every fish you can see, or going home frustrated wondering why the guy that high holed you caught that 20″ rainbow in a matter of minutes. The Charlie’s mysis with the egg yarn will become almost translucent in the water column and imitate these shrimp like no other.
These flies are only for tailwater trout below reservoirs that have mysis shrimp in them. If a reservoir has kokanee salmon in it, more than likely there’s thousands of these little guys getting pulled through the dam every day. This is because Colorado Parks and Wildlife introduced these as a food source for the kokanee salmon in the 1970’s, but unfortunately for the kokanee anglers, the kokanee didn’t eat them. Fortunately for trout anglers, trout gorge themselves on these protein packed snacks that feed through the dam 24/7. This produces some outrageously large trout, and gives them those tailwater trout colors as well. Fish this fly up to a mile and a half below any reservoir that has mysis shrimp and you’ll see why trout anglers love this little shrimp. This fly works best as the tag fly for a euro nymph set up, or as the second fly in a bobber nymph rig. You’ll need 4x-7x line to fish these as tailwater clarity is gin clear at its dirtiest.
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