tail waters

[JarrodRuggles 0]

What flies are you're most productive on tail waters?

 

 

 

Jarrod

 

 

 

 

 

[mgj 0]

midges.

scuds.

tiny baetis dries/parachutes.

 

those are most productive for me.

 

mgj

[JarrodRuggles 0]

should a been specific....

 

 

really really really really really really big tailwaters....fairly swift too.

 

 

Thanks though, but I am looking for some streamer patterns

[Steeldrifter 0]

I fish a tail water quite abit and have found the same flies hat i use on any other stream are just as productive on the tail water streams.

[Guest]

Well, what specific tailwater are you concerned about ? White, San Juan, Green ?

[JarrodRuggles 0]

well.....

 

 

 

i have tried everything and I've only ONLY caught a fish on a wooly bugger....

 

 

 

Its lake catherine tailwaters in AR and its swift and deep. The trout fishing is usueally slow. i was jsut trying to find something the fish havent seen that has been productive to someone else.

 

 

This place is just hard to fish

[Steeldrifter 0]

If you've caught them on a bugger then they obviously will take a streamer with some movement. Try something that has some built in movement, something with some marabou of something with a deerhair head that moves alot of water when stripped. Zonkers, Zoo cougars, strip leeches all those will have some good movement to them in the water.

 

Do a little hands on knees looking under the rocks that are near the banks and see whats liveing under them and use some nymphs to imitate what you find under the rocks. If you keep one for the table take a look in his stomach and see what he's been eating. Sometime you will catch one that still has some scuds or nymphs in his mouth and you can see without haveing to kill him.

 

SD

[fishyfranky 0]

I was fishing below a dam last year and saw a pile of cooked shrimp in the water. I guess someone dumped it and I thought it was kinda ignorant. I caught a nice smallmouth that day on a big black stonefly and during the fight it was coughing up shrimp!

[JarrodRuggles 0]

Thanks for the tips on streamers....I never can get deer hair to sink withouth making a massive bulky fly of lead. Any tips on that would also be apprecieted...Thanks again

[Steeldrifter 0]

Best way to fish a deer head streamer is with a full sinking line. I use a rio FS line that sinks at about 7-8" per sec.

[ArkieFlyGuy 0]

Jarrod,

 

Have you tried San Juan worms in different colors? Right now there may be a good shad pattern that will work. Look at Davy Wotton's website and look over his Shad kits and finished flies.

 

I spoke with Davy over the weekend and he said these had been doing him a lot of good during all the draining (high water) they've been doing on the White.

[nightfish 0]

Try a Gartside marabou streamer with a big tungsten bead.

[troutfly7 0]

you could use a squirrel tail streamer with a full sinking line

or a white maribou streamer

[Guest]

Sculpins. Wool Head Sculpins. Olive Wool Head Sculpins. They soak up water and sink, and are in most tailwaters of the US and many other countries. If not them then there are fish that look like them.

 

Don't forget the ever-effective White Zonker too. Closer Deep minnow too.