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Spent a day on the vise tying up some nasty streamers and then put them to test on the backyard pond.
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After sticking a couple of piggies I narrowed down my recent creations and took them out for a spin. Hit the weber a few days,
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the upper provo,
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and the middle provo.
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I'm yet to get a true trophy, but I did manage a few nice ones from a few different species. The moose is from earlier in the year.[inline "Fishing 016 - 400.jpg"]

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Streamer fishing is a whole new ball game. I'm fairly new to fly fishing, but there is not a whole lot that is better then an aggressive fish slamming your fly and rippin line off your reel.
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VERY NICE! How about a picture of the streamer? What kind of line, floating or streamer or sink tip?
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When fishing up the river I use a floating line with weighted streamers and usually dead drift the streamers through deeper holes with little twitches and some small retrieves. Once I decide to head back down I switch over to an intermediate sinking line and cast a few yards up stream and use a jerk strip retrieve with my tip facing down stream. This keeps the streamer cutting across the current. The most important thing I have learned is cover as much water as possible. There is no need to constantly switch flies. Just break the river down into little squares and target each holding water once or twice to entice the nastiest fish to play. I will include a few but not all my pics of some streamers that i have made. From top to bottom. The first is an articulated leech. The second is John Barr's Meat Whistle (great on bass and large trout). The third is an articulated sculpin pattern I made up that I tie in all sorts of colors. The yellow with red gills drives the browns crazy on sunny days. I have omitted my two absolute go to streamers because I have not ever seen anything like them in a fly shop and pride myself on their design. If somebody else has a really effective pattern and would like to swap some info I would probably send you a picture.

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The meat whistle is a sweet fly. I also like his slump buster. Nice flies dude!
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Thanks for sharing there LAZY.
Trying to build up the UTAH FLIES section here, so feel free to start new threads about FLIES THAT WORK! and this goes out to everyone.
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I think a flies that work area would be a great idea. I don't tie flies, but I have a couple that will catch almost exclusively browns only on the Weber. They were sold at Cabela's and then discontinued. I have searched everywhere for them, but can't find them. Luckily I purchased all the stock that cabela's had left in size 16 and 18. They are a chartreuse looking fly with four legs that sparkle. They represent a green caddis / mayfly pretty well. I have caught my biggest browns this year with these flies only. This fly would net me at least 10 browns a trip. I think over Christmas I will try to tie some flies and give them a shot on the Weber and post some pics. I will post a pic of my 26" brown I caught a a couple of weeks ago when I get off work. []
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So, post a new thread with a picture and lets try to guess how to make it.!
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