My flies are going out Express Mail tomorrow--Post Office wasn't open today.
We'll call my pattern "Blaine's Flashy Bugger." I have caught rainbow trout, steelhead, brown trout, cutthroat trout, largemouth bass, crappie, channel cats, bluegill, walleye, and pickerel on this fly in Oregon, Arkansas, and Texas fishing in Rogue River, the Little Red River, and farm ponds. It works from a dead drift, streamer style, and stripped; in still, slow, medium, and fast water. I like dark olive best, but I caught the steelhead on a black version. It is weighted and works with a floating line or a sink tip line.
If you are getting hits but not hooking up, then shorten the tail a little.
Last edited by Blaine; 01/15/07.
