Brookie Flies

[yooperflyfisher 0]

What is your favorite fly for brook trout.

 

My most fish catchers are woolly bugger and squirmy wormy.

 

But my favorite is Lively Legz Copper John and Adams.

[Flicted 0]

Whatever they feed on in the area. If theres an obvious hatch, I use that. If not, I use nymphs associated with the insects that should be hatching at that time. Otherwise, classic style streamer flies such as Light Spruce, Black Nosed Dace, Mickey Finn.

[FIN-ITE 34 0]

For dry flies, one of my favorites is the Ausable Bomber.

[DarrellP 0]

Royal Wulff, hands down. They always fell for it in CO.

[SILKHDH 0]

I pound brookies in beaver ponds in Colorado on 14 & 16 red humpies. I've had 60 fish days on them. POUND THEM!! Also on a fly I tie. I call it "Blood filled mosquito" Looks like this. Tie like a regular mosquito only add a piece of red floss to the belly of the fly. They killed it.

[DFoster 0]

Royal Wulff, hands down. They always fell for it in CO.

I'll second that and add any of the "Royal" patterns (Wulff/Coachman) work on brookies, wets and dries.

[Philly 0]

When I fish for them in Vermont, my go to fly is the CDC and Elk(deer hair). Most of the small streams and ponds have excellent caddis hatches. Another fly I use in riffles is an off-beat pattern, the Nalle Puh. I'm mainly a dry fly person. I've had some luck with small woolly buggers and green weenies. Seems to be a lot of green rock worms in the streams. Will probably try a chartreuse mini-mop fly when I head up there this year.

[foambug 0]

Silk...can you give the recipe?the one in the vise?....thanks

[tjm 0]

Any good trout fly will catch all the brookies in the stream or pond, I favor the soft hackle/spider types and traditional nymphs like gold rib hares ear.

[Flicted 0]

Ive heard that around 80% of a trouts diet is eaten below the surface. Not sure how true that is because I never saw any interviews. But I can say I have caught more, and bigger trout especially brook trout it seems on a dropper or fishing a nymph, emerger, or small streamer by itself.

[Rocco 0]

The Royal Trude had worked fro me.

 

Rocco

[xvigauge 0]

Here in the Smoky Mountains, brookies will hit just about anything, but one hot fly for them is the pink weenie.

Joe

[Val Schmaus 0]

picket pin

[SBPatt 0]

Ausable Bomber

 

 

Delaware Adams Wulff (Bomber style)

 

 

Kolzers Firefly

 

 

These work in the east and west, not that Ive found the brookies to be very picky.

 

Regards,

Scott

[DarrellP 0]

Interesting that several of these posts include the color red. I know red is a big deal fishing for Bream, too. To me, Brookes are a lot like Bream, at times. One day I want to go Labrador to fish for the big uns.