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Try looking in the water around the shore of your lake. Usually I can find a couple of them within a few feet from shore. Watch how they move. They move in quick short little darts interspersed with long pauses where they just sit motionless. I find they seem to produce in shallower water. The cutties definately like them. Good luck!

also the patterns for the olive stickleback and big tailed stickleback are on www.westfly.com. they have worked for me. I also heard that the best body material for stickle backs is the silver foil in cigarette packages under epoxy

This pattern comes from Powell River, BC and catches big cutties really well in lakes. tail: 2 olive saddle tips body: silver crystal chenile wing: pearl crytal flash under olive marabou hackle: turn of grizzly troat: red feather fibres the hackle is tied in front of the wing with the throat tied in behind the hackle

Thanks, tying some up ASAP

check out this address: www.ospreyflyfishers.com/id65.htm These types of epoxy minnow patterns are durable and slay sea run cutthroat when they are feeding on fry in the rivers, in my neck of the woods, anyway. Can never go wrong with a real sparse rolled muddler or similar too.

#6 or #8 black beadheaded woolly bugger maybe with a couple of strands of flashabou. All you'll ever need. Of course I stock my box with a million different leach patterns but, especially since the majority of the team I use leaches as a searching pattern I have never found I need anything other than a black bugger, and the bead head gives it a pretty tasty looking action.

looking for any patterns for march browns, any stage

i recently began to try to experiment with fishing flies with more movement, and with great success. I am convinced it is one of the most and often the most essential quality of any pattern. This led me to thinking about soft hackles, which I have always ignored largely for some reason, and really don't know much about. Anyway, I came up with some questions you guys might help me with. - what are some of the best ways to fish them - ever put of bead head on, or any weight when you fish them? - What are your preferred types of water for fishing them? - How do they produce on browns? I've always been hesetant to use much of anything except big narly streamers for them