A week of streamers!

[Lazy-Z]

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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