The next stage of stillwater fishing hasn't kicked in yet (ICE) so where has everyone been hitting and how have they been?
Are the fish moving in to shallower water?
I already gathered that HALLOWEENS or Black and Orange is a great color right now, but anyone try RED?
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Unfortunately I have been too busy coaching jr. high wrestling to get much fishing done lately. So I have been living vicariously through other peoples experiences the last few weeks.
Windriver
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Me too, not the wrestling thing, but does sound fun[blush]
I been getting my leaders together and gear for my show at Jimmy's All Season Anglers on the 22nd.
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I don't really fly fish but i have been out for bass on my toon and when the wind is not blowing me over the dam i do fairly good. I have been getting some nice bass off of big rocks in about 5 to 10 foot of water. I have recently tried out the new 5" Yum Money Minnow, and WOW they really work. I just rig it with a 5/O wide gap hook with a weighted shank. I real it nice and slow and when i hit a rock i let it drop and POW!!!! Another largemouth. I have been getting some smallmouth the same way. The colors im using are Clown and Bluegill, i know if i could find a perch color Money Minnow i would also be successful.
All in all i gotta say the money minnow has a great action. When u real it in the tail shakes like any other soft body swim bait, but the Money Minnow actually swims. The body of the bait actually sways back and fourth just like a real bait fish swims! I could talk about this all day but my fingers would hurt, so don't take my word for it go and get ya some of these great baits!!!
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I have been fishing in my little retention pond at work and haven't caught much of anything. I think fishing is about done for the year for me. I might go to a lake tomorrow, but I think most of the fish have gone to sleep for the winter around here.
Jason
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I had to look up that Yum Money Minnow, as I fly fish. WOW! what a cool lure. I can see why that thing works and I agree a Perch would be killer.
For me, the colder it gets, the better the fishing, but I fish for trout.
Keep the reports coming, and PICTURES, I love Fish Porn. (it is okay to say that right?)[angelic]
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Everyone likes to see naked fish. It keeps the spirits high.[cool]
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I hate to sound so conservative but I prefer them fully dressed in seasoned
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What time will you be at Jimmy's? I have a tournament in IF that day.
Windriver
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10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
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ICE? What's that?
We have open water year round, and fish to go with it.
Right now the musky and stripers are starting to make themselves available to flyrodders. Meanwhile, the crappie are still hitting. Bluegill and bass have slowed down, but can still be taken.
Oh, my. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Brook
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[cool][#0000ff]Red is a "universal" color...like black or white. It is a "trigger" color when used with other colors...to simulate gills or blood. But, when used as a predominant color it is of a wavelength that most species find attractive.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have long used red either as half of a red/black bugger combo...or as an all red "worm" or bugger. I have some made up that I will probably be using in the next couple of weeks on Scofield, Jordanelle and maybe back to Huntington. Will provide pics and reports.[/#0000ff]
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Chartreuse has always been my go-to color, for overall attractiveness.
But you're so right about red, particularly when tied in at the gills position. It's almost as strong a trigger as eyes.
Just think of all the old wet-fly patterns that used red. Probably more of them than all others combined.
With any sort of fly that involves tying in behind the head (i.e., Thunder Creek or other reverse-tied streamers, my own Round Head, Bullet Heads, etc.), I always change to red thread for that final tie-down. And I use red thread for Clousers and other bead-, cone-, and dumbell-eyed flies, with my final whip behind the head. It's a perfect simulation of gills.
In the old days I almost always used red---in whole or in part---for tails. F'rinstance, when tying wooly worms (anybody besides me remember them?), no matter the body and hackle colors, the tails were always red.
For some reason I've gotten away from it, but I can't explain why.
Brook
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[cool][#0000ff]Are you sure we didn't go to different schools together? I share a lot of your sentiments. I also use chartreuse a lot. And I also use red thread to finish off a lot of fly patterns...especially blacks and purples.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Wooly worms? Some of the first flies I learned to tie...with old pipe cleaners died different colors. Remember pipe cleaners? Used chicken feathers I found in my aunt's chicken coop. Over 50 years ago. And, wooly worms will still work as well today as they did then...just that nobody uses them because they are "old school". I also used red tag tails on just about every color wooly worm I tied. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]They say that great minds work in the same direction. Hmmmm...wonder what the opposite of that is.[/#0000ff]
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Red is definitely my go to color for FALL specially. I don't skimp on it however. I Tie the Gartside Softhackle using on black and one red marabou. DEADLY on Strawberry. Renegade with red tag, always.
I admit, I don't use woolly worms, but I don't use woolly buggers either, or that often. I do fish the tail and chenille but usually the size of a nymph like the "Hot Chocolate" and Crystal Buggers, but that is about it.
Royal Wulff with red band or Chartreuse.
At the pond, I threw out RED and Chartreuse Crystal buggers...the LMB LOVED that Chartreuse.
SO DO CARP![laugh][laugh]
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..unknowingly this past July I tied up some wooly worms while I was on vacation in Tn with MacLarry and family.. I say unknowingly because I was tying up or trying to tie a wooly bugger with a red tail and ended up cutting the tail really short.. I had also used red hackle and red thread on black chenille body.. I tied these up on #12 hook.. I was able to catch quite a few crappie, gills, and red bellied sunfish.. :-)
MacFly
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