02-09-2011, 06:16 PM
It's the Weeb - it doesn't really matter except dries. Almost everything works, I don't even worry about matching the hatch there unless I'm not catching a half dozen fish an hour. Fish with what you enjoy fishing and worry about matching the hatch where it actually is likely to matter. I like size 10 bh prince nymphs and it does catch plenty of fish all winter.The Weeb is too small for me to bother with a second fly. If you want to target fish over 20 inches in the winter on the Weber go with a size 6 - 10 streamers fished fairly slow not the microflies. You'll catch less fish but won't be bothered with all the dinks and whities. If you want to use dries in the winter I would downsize to size 16 or smaller however. Next time your out try a size 10 or 12 for an hour then switch to the smaller stuff and let us know how you do. Be patient and cover a lot of ground if fishing streamers because on average there is only about 1 fish over 20 inches per hundred yards on the Weber below Echo and they aren't the easiest to fool.
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