Oh, and for the record, I am a noob at fly fishing. Started 2 years ago, so I wanted to say Thanks MABC for this thread. I have already, and hope to learn more about the art!
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We had one high mountain lake in Colorado that had them stocked in the 60’s. Beautiful fish and the lake was a 12 mile hike before road construction changed that. Nobody there. We did get snowed on in late August though.
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Caught these brookies in the Big Horns over the weekend.
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I should add that I caught around 15 or 16 brookies all around the 8" to 10" range using a small copper bead head with a black body. They absolutely loved that small wet fly.
I can't believe what happened to me last weekend chasing the native golden trout here in California. Drove up to the Sierras up by Army Pass and camped out for the weekend. My car charger broke, so had no access to a phone. ( that was one of the benefits of the trip.) The down side, I did not bring my other camera, so I didn't get any pics of our trip. we did however manage to hike up to the lakes at 13,000 ft and just slayed the native goldens. All C&R, and you could have caught them all day long. We wetherell for 1/2 of the day and both landed more b.c. tha 2 dozen fish each. Native Goldens are truly some of the most beautiful fish! I have a few pics of some of the smaller fish we caught out of the creek on our way up to the lakes, but ran out of battery shortly after.
Where were you fishing in the Bighorns? Cloud Peak lakes?
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Yes sir. Nailed it.
I was talking to a guy last night who was headed there, and I literally tied a black wet fly for him to take along as he stood there chatting. I don't know what fish think it is, but it seems like it always works.
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The only thing I can think of is an ant. It works around home too.
Yeah, I've thought that, too. There have been people who have studied what feeding trout will take to see if they're truly locked into one specific insect hatch or not, and the two things that almost no feeding trout would ever let go by were a live leech and a live ant. The first explains the success of a Woolly Bugger, and the second probably explains a lot of success for black flies that people use to imitate other things.
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That makes a ton of sense. I've always had success with both. Especially in lakes.
@Brew City Husker, I saw your post where you said that you fly fish, so I thought you might be interested in a couple of threads in this forum. I'll link you in both.
Thank you.
I hadn't watched the Huge Fly Fisherman videos until fairly recently, but now I think I'm a big fan. This one seems apropos for the times:
