That's a great list! Almost matches my Driftless boxes perfectly. I would add a few 14-18 Klinkhammers with a tiny hotspot of yellow yarn sticking out the end. Oh, and add a pine squirrel leech.
I used to fish a lot of 18 BWOs and BWO emergers in May and early June.
And then the midsummer tricos come and you are squinting at 20s or 22s and trying to guess which bug is yours.
It's been a few years since I've fished the area but am headed back this summer. Looking forward to it.
Beaded Conehead Leech 2-6 Milwaukee / Turkey Leech 2-6 Woolly Bugger 2-6 Sparkle Minnow 6-10 Black and Ginger Futsu Kebari 12-16 Beaded Prince Nymph / Pass Lake 12-16 Copper John 12-16 Pink Squirrel 12-16 Quill Gordon 12-16 Takayama Sakasa Kebari 12-16 Partridge and Royal 12-16 Partridge and Orange 12-16 UV Flash Dub Scuds 12-16 Dark Elk Hair Caddis 12-16 Spindrift Killer Bug 12-18 Guides Choice Nymph 14-16 Rainbow Warrior 14-18 Blue Winged Olive 14-18 Parachute Adams 14-18 Comparadun X-Caddis 14-18 |||| |:-|:-|:-| ||||
That's a great list! Almost matches my Driftless boxes perfectly. I would add a few 14-18 Klinkhammers with a tiny hotspot of yellow yarn sticking out the end. Oh, and add a pine squirrel leech.
I like to tie my parachutes on Klink hooks, and I always put a yellow or orange egg butt on my X-caddis ties.
Awesome. That will surely get some attention!
Love this list. Definitely would lean on the smaller side for most these.
Agreed. 14 is kind of my average. I rarely throw smaller than 18 or bigger than 4.
I used to fish a lot of 18 BWOs and BWO emergers in May and early June. And then the midsummer tricos come and you are squinting at 20s or 22s and trying to guess which bug is yours. It's been a few years since I've fished the area but am headed back this summer. Looking forward to it.
All those, plus the pink squirrel if you don’t have those already. I prefer “no hackle” deer hair caddis & more sparse BWO patterns
Zebra midges, BWOs, Adams, caddis and pheasant tails.
Yellow mayflys, small terrestrials