Top 3 trout streamers

[jfinn 0]

Asking for input on everyone's top 3 favorite streamers for trout. It's time to clean the bench off and fill my boxes. Any input is appreciated.

[Piker20 0]

Bait fish patterns I like; goat toe, woolly bugger, synthetic hair baitfish.

[grizzly27 0]

I like articulated streamers. Circus Peanut, Sex Dungeon and a Heifer Groomer are 3 streamers I always have in my box. They provide good action and cover the water column effectively as each has a different sink rate.

 

What type of water are you fishing?

[thursthouse 0]

Wolly Bugger (all 637,000 variations), slump buster, Goblin sculpin

[Dcap240 0]

Wooly bugger, clouser minnow, and zonker ( really anything with a rabbit strip) and all the millions of variations. I probably should just say anything with marabou, bucktail, and or a zonker strip. But since I have to pick 3 it'll be those.

[jfinn 0]

Wooly bugger, clouser minnow, and zonker ( really anything with a rabbit strip) and all the millions of variations. I probably should just say anything with marabou, bucktail, and or a zonker strip. But since I have to pick 3 it'll be those.

what style hook and size do you use for closuer minnows?

[jfinn 0]

I like articulated streamers. Circus Peanut, Sex Dungeon and a Heifer Groomer are 3 streamers I always have in my box. They provide good action and cover the water column effectively as each has a different sink rate.

 

What type of water are you fishing?

Spring creeks in SW Wisconsin

[ihang10 0]

Wolly buggers, clousers, bunny leeches, or as someone else said, anything bunny in white, black and olive.

[mvendon 0]

Hi jfinn,

 

Mine are an Edson Tiger Dark, size 8 Ausable Ugly, and a size 10 black leech. All are weighted if you don't have a sinking line.

 

Regards,

Mark

[Dcap240 0]

I've used a few different hooks but right now what I have is Dai-Riki#930 in sizes 2, 4, and 6. Umpqua U 401 in size 4 and 8 and I also have some mustads in size 2 and 6. Not sure the # on the mustads they are not in the original package anymore but I think they are one of the styles that Bob Clouser recommends in his book. (#3366 maybe)

[RCFetter 0]

Wooly bugger and clouser minnows are all that I use.

[grizzly27 0]

 

I like articulated streamers. Circus Peanut, Sex Dungeon and a Heifer Groomer are 3 streamers I always have in my box. They provide good action and cover the water column effectively as each has a different sink rate.

 

What type of water are you fishing?

Spring creeks in SW Wisconsin

 

 

Ah, well then I would be changing my mind about the articulated streamers then

 

On the spring creeks in Missouri, I typically fish a muddler minnow, marabou muddler or a thunder creek. With the Muddler(whether marabou or not) I would keep in mind that weight can be an important issue. I usually carry an unweighted, weighted and cone head variety when streamer fishing and carry sizes 4-10 in various colors. A lot of people swear by the wooly bugger, but I have had minimal success with buggers when I compare it to any of the other streamers.

 

Zonkers work well. Additionally, I have tied size 6 cracklebacks for my friends, and they have reported success on wild trout streams and stocked streams alike. Good luck, learning is 90% of the fun in my opinion.

[grizzly27 0]

Hi jfinn,

 

Mine are an Edson Tiger Dark, size 8 Ausable Ugly, and a size 10 black leech. All are weighted if you don't have a sinking line.

 

Regards,

Mark

 

I like Marks point about the weighting. I usually carry a sink tip for streamer fishing if I am not fishing tiny brooks. Otherwise, I would have several varieties of weight to suit certain water flows and depths.

[Ty Flyer 0]

It depends where you fish, but my top three are Woolly bugger, woolly bugger, and wolly bugger.

[Bryon Anderson 0]

 

... anything with marabou, bucktail, and or a zonker strip.

 

Ditto for me, except I would replace bucktail with synthetic streamer hair (craft fur, etc.). Most of my streamers imitate sculpin or crayfish, since that's what the big browns and smallmouth here like to eat. I always carry half a dozen or so in baby rainbow trout colors, and a few small white ones with a pinkish-orange throat to imitate steelhead smolts and salmon fry in the spring.