02-11-2019, 11:58 AM
I remember teaching my son to fly fish for the first time when he was 8. We were up on Tincup Creek In Wyoming with hoppers everywhere. I tied on a very realistic looking foam hopper and helped him with the motion intermittently for 5 minutes before he told me to stop helping because he was fine. He caught about 10 10-13 inch Cutthroat on his own in 40 minutes before he was ready to do something else. As we got ready to go I saw a Cutthroat come to the surface and strike a little piece of wood roughly the size of the hoppers that was floating downstream. I think that set off a light bulb that got me thinking about whether the right fly is all that important.
If you gave me the luxury of 2 flies I’d go with the Prince Nymph and the Humpy.
I remember running into a guy up on the Greys River In Wyoming. He said he had caught a 24 inch Cutthroat earlier but then lost the humpy he was using. He asked me if I had any size 12 Humpies I could spare. I offered him several but he declined because I only had red and yellow ones. He had caught the big Cutthroat on a green one.
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If you gave me the luxury of 2 flies I’d go with the Prince Nymph and the Humpy.
I remember running into a guy up on the Greys River In Wyoming. He said he had caught a 24 inch Cutthroat earlier but then lost the humpy he was using. He asked me if I had any size 12 Humpies I could spare. I offered him several but he declined because I only had red and yellow ones. He had caught the big Cutthroat on a green one.
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