favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns?

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2009/07/26 09:35:29 (permalink)

favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns?

whats your favorite pattern besides eggs?
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    eyesofsteel
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/26 14:32:36 (permalink)
    My hand tied size 10 bugger in either black or olive.  They cant resist them dead drifted or stripped. 

    Egg patterns are like cheating!  Stones are my droppers.  

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/26 16:53:08 (permalink)
    what else is there??
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/26 17:47:58 (permalink)
    i always like the copper john, its my favorite nymph...most of my rigs are a CJ or a prince with an egg tailing behind
     
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/26 19:56:52 (permalink)
    Bugger variation using 2 rabbit hair collars rather than a palmered hackle, size 6 -12. Size, colors determined by stream size, water color, and other factors.
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/26 21:03:28 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: eyesofsteel

    My hand tied size 10 bugger in either black or olive.  They cant resist them dead drifted or stripped. 

    Egg patterns are like cheating!  Stones are my droppers.  





    I second that. Last year was my first time really using buggers for steel and an olive bugger became my go-to fly for steel.
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/26 21:32:11 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: Plum Bob

    Bugger variation using 2 rabbit hair collars rather than a palmered hackle, size 6 -12. Size, colors determined by stream size, water color, and other factors.


    Love that one for trout, but I prefer a sparser tie, and use only 1 collar, at the head.
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/27 01:21:10 (permalink)
    I enjoy it when they are taking Wooly Buggers. Black, white, olive or brown.

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/27 21:53:11 (permalink)
    If I'm nymphing, I like a heavy stonefly nymph. A wiggle stone or a CMY stone. If I'm swingin, I like spey and intruder style flies. I catch more nymphing but I would rather have the hit on the swing.
    post edited by norm289 - 2009/07/27 21:54:18
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/28 08:51:48 (permalink)
    I like using a plain PT or a wiggle hex.
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/28 11:10:48 (permalink)
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/28 12:50:24 (permalink)
    Size 14 or 16 PT nymph. Also my version of a eggsucking leech.

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/29 08:20:29 (permalink)
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/29 12:12:58 (permalink)
    I like to hit the fast cuts with a white bugger.
    The strikes are very aggressive.
    When low and clear I,ll swing them under logs and strip fast.
     

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/29 20:44:01 (permalink)
    princes,buggers, or some sort of bead head caddis

    I didn't say these are the ten suggestions
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/29 20:48:39 (permalink)
    Rootbeer brown stone inabout size 14 (looks like a cockroach) and Greg senyos' flashback stone in bright blue. I've tried a soft hackle but can never get the drift right (unlike someone I know).

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/30 05:13:18 (permalink)
    buggers of course...and I have found that san juan's work wonders on fish in shallow runs when the water is super low and clear.
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/07/30 21:45:44 (permalink)
    Meat Special...and Moe Roe
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/04 09:46:18 (permalink)
    Zonker Strips and Buggers

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/04 18:08:16 (permalink)
    olive soft hackles and swinging the Emerald shiner pattern a kind gentelman showed me a few years ago,in tandem
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/04 18:14:57 (permalink)
    Olive bugger. Last year at the one fly, I lost mine early and tied on an olive bugger and finally had some action. Should've been my first choice.

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/04 20:13:52 (permalink)
    meanwhile, I was using an Olive Bugger last year at the one fly and didn't get a look... LOL

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/27 13:41:26 (permalink)
    Honey Bugs!!!

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/27 15:57:15 (permalink)
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/27 22:59:44 (permalink)
    Any white bead headed nymph as a dropper
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/28 00:49:20 (permalink)
    Some kind of stonefly nymph, or a pheasant tail, but lately its been more of swingin something big.
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/28 06:11:34 (permalink)
    but lately its been more of swingin something big.
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            what kinda fishing you been doin? LMAO
            
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/28 07:56:00 (permalink)


    its called the Lue or Lou minnow. I made them up 2 years ago and have good luck with them for trout and steelies as well as bass.

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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/28 10:23:25 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: Dream Catcher

    but lately its been more of swingin something big.
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           what kinda fishing you been doin? LMAO
           


    LOL. What I meant to say is that the past few years, i have been swinging traditional spey style patterns, tube flies, and big streamers for steelhead alot more than I used to.
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    RE: favorite steelhead fly besides egg patterns? 2009/08/28 12:13:10 (permalink)
    Kyler ' nice ....... Norm its no big secret sAbReeNAa calls you smokehouse ......  Cause the meats always hanging brother ........
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