Haven't seriously fished in a while. However, one fly always came through for me. I have caught Rainbows, Browns, Cutts, Largemouth Bass, Crappie, Bluegill, Pickeral, Walleye, and Channel Cats on it. It is sort of a dark olive marabou flashy bugger thing. I heavily weight it, give it a long marabou tail, dub some marabou on for the body, run a strand of flashabou down each side and out the tail, and then give it a grizzly hackle collar. I have made it from #10 to #4. I can dead drift it, fish it like a streamer, or strip it in--all methods seem to work with it. I tied this based on a pattern I saw a guy using in a pool of still water--he was catching lots of fish. When I asked him what he was using, he gave me the fly. I later dropped it in the river, so I tied what I thought I'd seen. Much later I found I didn't get it right according to what he was using. However, my "error" worked so well I have stuck with it.
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<br>Blaine
