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The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Hard - 5-7 Min
Coldwater
I like to change the thread color from red to other colors to add some variety, but I still think red does best.
This is a perfect fast water fly and well suited for small high mountain creeks where fish aren’t often feeding to a pattern and instead are targeting insects opportunistically. For those that fish brook trout streams, this is a great pattern for them and I love throwing these in small creeks in Colorado where the fish are small and ravenous. It floats high and dry with a little floatant added and provides dozens of fish wen tied durably.
There are two primary ways to fish this fly. The first is a la carte as a single dry fly. In small streams with opportunistic fish, this is often my preferred way as it’s just so much fun watching fish come up and eat this pattern and it’s very easy to see.
The second way is with a dropper nymph below it. It is buoyant enough to hold a good sized nymph like a hares ear or pheasant tail beadhead. This is a good technique if you aren’t finding as many fish as you’d suspect should be in the water. Often the royal wulff will bring a fish to the fly, then he’ll turn and take the dropper. Either way you get a fish!
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