Posted by Bear from 153.113.3.3 on October 24, 2001 at 12:42:08:
This is a follow on to the thread below. Click the link below to see it.
The discussion we had pointed four classic ways - attractors and imitators x dry and wet.
Based on the hatch that has been swarming all over my back door screen, I decided to match the hatch and came up with an attractor to boot. The RX was a Lady Bug dry in #10 and #12.
After I hung the #12 in a tree top (popped the tipet on a back cast), the gods granted me a trout on the #10.
Bear's Lady Bug (Copyrighted) pattern: (My wife said,"Maybe it will look like a Ladybug to the trout.")
It is basically a bullethead made of Elk and Deer hair.
Top: Orange Deer Hair (Where do you find an orange deer?) tied bullet style tied and clipped off completely at the bend. Note: Use about twice as much Orange Deer hair as Elk hair. Flare the Orange hair to look like the round shell.
Bottom: Light Elk hair tied bullet style. Leave a few short stubs sticking out to mimic wings.
That is the $2.50 pattern. Note to Orvis: To sell these for $4.50, you will have to add some frills like cul de canard legs.
jrocko, the answer is that they will take a dry attractor imitator-the best of all worlds.
I enjoyed catching that fish. I enjoyed this exchange. Inspired by you gentlemen, I promise to use my fly rod for trout. The next thing I want to discuss is a flies only, catch and release season for these trout. After all, they come from the same hatcheries that all the salmon and a lot of the stream trout come from. But that is another story.
C&R, C&E, whatever,
Bear