Skippers

[Silver Bullets 0]

I was wondering if trout ate skippers? i'm not sure if thats there right name, thats just what i have always called them? there the little bugs that skip accrosed the water, they just had a hatch, i noticed while looking around the little tiny trout stream that runs behind are camp, does anyone know what i am talking about(the bug that is)

do trout eat them? they look like they would be a easy fly to tye!

[Steeldrifter 0]

Are you talkin about the bug that kinda "walks" on the surface and skates across in short (about 8-10") bursts? look a "bit" like a spider almost.

[appalachian angler (tn.) 0]

I have never witnessed trout feeding on "skaters" but I remember in Joe Brooks, book Trout Fishing, him talking about tying and tactics for what I believed he called 'Skating Spiders". I usually only see the bugs in slow moving silty pools that trout seldom inhabit.

 

A.A.

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yea SD, them be the ones! i've always called em skippers, the brook is full of em now, i didnt think they ate them? just wasnt sure!

[Steeldrifter 0]

We've always just called em water bugs never knew the proper term for them.

 

But around here in MI it seems like the only place you find them is right up next to the bank in a couple inches of water so i dont think that they really get out where a trout or any other fish can really get a look at them. But even if they did i think they are so darn fast when they "skate" across the water that a trout would quickly realize that they would use up to much energy to actually catch one of them.

 

SD

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yea they sure are fast, might just tye one up to give it a try, i'll let ya all know how it works out