Articulated EP Gamechanger

Because there is a lot of material here it can be heavy when wet, we recommend no less than a 6 wt to throw this one and matching a sinking line with it to get it to the depth you want to fish it. For all of your warmwater applications keep this fly near structure. A floating or intermediate line can be used to run this fly right over the top of some rocks and shallow points. Get it deep with a sinking line next to logs and cut banks. Use a heavily weighted line to throw through baitballs to find big stripe and largemouth sitting below. When using it for trout keep the fly in the strike zone and quick short strips keeps the fly moving erratically. Keep it next to structure or in deeper runs. Hit every cut bank that you find hard with this fly. Vary your stripping speeds to find what works best, long slow strips keep the fly moving with quick twitches where short quick strips keeps that back end flailing.

The rear stinger hook is great if you have fish that are prone to short strike. I would tie up some with and some without the rear hook. The rear stinger hook will sometimes get fouled, thats just the nature of this fly. Try to keep open loops when casting to help prevent it. If you get short struck then switch to the stinger hook version.