08-26-2009, 10:58 PM
Hey KickingBack, okay I'll admit that I suck at remembering names of flies. The weather at Trial Lake was cool, a little rainy and a little windy at times so there wasn't a lot of bugs flying around. I still wanted to fish on top mostly to practice my casting and because it's more fun.
I tied on a #18 fly that was basically peacock wrapped around the hook with a white feather hackle (okay, just looked it up--A Renegade). It worked really well both sitting still and slowly stripping it back to me. I had probably 3-4 hits to every fish I caught. They use deceptive tactics up there-- there were a ton of albino trout that you could see from a mile away. They would catch my attention so I'm watching them thinking they're going to hit my fly when the camouflaged rainbows would come out of nowhere, hit it and disappear. Fun stuff.
Mike
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I tied on a #18 fly that was basically peacock wrapped around the hook with a white feather hackle (okay, just looked it up--A Renegade). It worked really well both sitting still and slowly stripping it back to me. I had probably 3-4 hits to every fish I caught. They use deceptive tactics up there-- there were a ton of albino trout that you could see from a mile away. They would catch my attention so I'm watching them thinking they're going to hit my fly when the camouflaged rainbows would come out of nowhere, hit it and disappear. Fun stuff.
Mike
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