Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => Fly Fishing Cafe => Topic started by: fly fisher on March 16, 2010, 11:44:28 AM
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i was wondering if it is worth trying this time of year. Also what flys should i use. thanks for the help. i also have a kayak to get around the lake.
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You bet it is worth it. If it warms up for Sat like it is supposed to try American Coachman, Professor, or Bloodworm.
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You bet it is worth it. If it warms up for Sat like it is supposed to try American Coachman, Professor, or Bloodworm.
so anything with red in it.
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I've had pretty good success using a black Wooly Worm (red tag tail) on a floating line. Just cast to the weeds and slowly retrieve your fly as it begins its descent. A Carrie Special or Halfback works wonders in that lake as well....
Good-luck!
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so anything with red in it.
The Professor and American Coachman are primarily yellow. For reasons I have yet to figure out, early season on that lake it is combinations of yellow and red, but to make things confusing, I have not found Mickey Finn very productive for anything but the Crappies (nice table fish if you are not afflicted with the trout only prejudice).
Once things warm up some more Tom Thumb, Royal Coachman (dry), and Double Hackled Peacock, will be the ticket.
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The Professor and American Coachman are primarily yellow. For reasons I have yet to figure out, early season on that lake it is combinations of yellow and red, but to make things confusing, I have not found Mickey Finn very productive for anything but the Crappies (nice table fish if you are not afflicted with the trout only prejudice).
Once things warm up some more Tom Thumb, Royal Coachman (dry), and Double Hackled Peacock, will be the ticket.
what about the pumpkinhead
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Give it a try. Personally I am not a fan of patterns that have less than a twenty year track record of success. There are exception of course, but in most cases you can't go wrong with what history has proven. . Not following my own advice put me in at last place in the Canadian Nationals last Sept.
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Pumpkin heads were deadly last year in the local lakes!
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Yes last year. What about this year? Our local lakes have been producing for a month and a half and have yet to hear a word about Pumpkin Heads. What is a Pumpkin head anyway? In my analysis I would say it is a modified Woolly Bugger or Woolly Worm with an orange bead for a head. Which speaks to me of an egg sucking leach, orange being more visible in murky water. Okay Whonnock tends to be murky, so lets get some reports.
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what about the pumpkinhead
That's a great pattern, and has produced many rainbow and cutthroat trout for me in our local lakes (very effective in Rolley Lake!). I also use the red bead version, but the orange bead seems to work best.
Try tying the Pumpkinhead with a 1/8 inch, fluorescent orange bead if you want to make it five times more effective. It's absolutely deadly...
Cheers,
Todd
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Give it a try. Personally I am not a fan of patterns that have less than a twenty year track record of success. There are exception of course, but in most cases you can't go wrong with what history has proven. . Not following my own advice put me in at last place in the Canadian Nationals last Sept.
Hate to admit it Jeff, but I caught several fish in Summit Lake and Loon Lake with the Pumpkinhead, at times when nothing else seemed to work...
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That is okay Todd, the Pumpkin Head was not in the box of ten flies our team captian insisted we use without exeption. My inside info on Summit told me slim bodied leach patterns are the ticket; fits the Pumpkin Head. Thanks for the tip on Rolley.
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I've moved the Whonnock report from today to the fishing reports section.
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pumpkinheads were my fly of choice last fall in the interior, i got 19 fish out of calling basically on the same fly. got a nice 4lber out of big ok on the same fly. definitley a fly to have in the arsenal.
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Wanted to get there this weekend, didn't get there.
If the weather is OK next weekend, I will be out there. Small white boat, come by and say hello.
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went on friday. beautiful day to be on the water stillwater flyfishing again! Only saw 3 fish rise all day...got no action on chironies. It was fun, till the kayak club came out. Man the motor boats are annoying. When he comes out (often 2 boats), it just turns me off and really makes the whole experience unenjoyable for me. are 10 horse motors really necessary? Waves, motor noise etc...
I know it's been discussed before, but this guy just loves to tell people who tell him no motors .."I'm exempt"!! he says it's for safety...but c'mon he uses it 100% for coaching.
I could rant all day about it, but I guess I just have to get used to it or fish somewhere else.
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went on friday. beautiful day to be on the water stillwater flyfishing again! Only saw 3 fish rise all day...got no action on chironies. It was fun, till the kayak club came out. Man the motor boats are annoying. When he comes out (often 2 boats), it just turns me off and really makes the whole experience unenjoyable for me. are 10 horse motors really necessary? Waves, motor noise etc...
I know it's been discussed before, but this guy just loves to tell people who tell him no motors .."I'm exempt"!! he says it's for safety...but c'mon he uses it 100% for coaching.
I could rant all day about it, but I guess I just have to get used to it or fish somewhere else.
they were out will i fished and it kept the fish in main areas which was nice. but they should have an electric motor or something more eco friendly
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I couldn't agree more fly fisher! They shouldn't be using a gas motor except in the event of an emergency...
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Yes last year. What about this year? Our local lakes have been producing for a month and a half and have yet to hear a word about Pumpkin Heads. What is a Pumpkin head anyway? In my analysis I would say it is a modified Woolly Bugger or Woolly Worm with an orange bead for a head. Which speaks to me of an egg sucking leach, orange being more visible in murky water. Okay Whonnock tends to be murky, so lets get some reports.
I guess this is as good a place as any for my inaugural post.(oops, I see it's actually my third post)
Newsman, the pumpkinhead is what it is! Thanks for showing so much interest!
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Welcome to the site John! Great to see you popping your head in here as well!
Cheers,
Todd
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Welcome to the site John! Great to see you popping your head in here as well!
Cheers,
Todd
Thanks Todd. Had forgotten that I joined way back when but I hear so much about this site that I had to see what all the clamour was about!
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Nothing to see here, just some kids chucking bait. ;D
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Nothing to see here, just some kids chucking bait. ;D
Getting schooled
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Nothing to see here, just some kids chucking bait. ;D
Don't worry Rod, John also likes to chuck bait. I wouldn't have believed it myself but I saw him fishing worms under a bobber at Mill lake last week. :D