Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => Fly Fishing Cafe => Topic started by: RG on September 27, 2011, 03:21:48 PM
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Just wondering which flies are good for chums?
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my fav chum fly is a leech style fly, size 4 with a bead head and green body with a purple tail, or all green, pink works to.
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Based on jigs that work well, I would go with pink & purple.
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Based on jigs that work well, I would go with pink & purple.
+1 anything mix pink and purple with some flash
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A white marabou leech pattern works well too as does the old muddler which allows you to go after coho and chum at the same time.
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if your after just chum then nothing will beat a pink/purple combo. tie some decently large and some smaller of the same pattern(s) I just use a wooly bugger style fly personally, fast and easy to tie and when they destroy it i dont care
now if im trying to avoid chum then i use muddlers in natural, olive, blue, chartruese and orange for some reason they dont go for them all that often but coho sure will ;) I have watched coho hiding amongst the chum dart out and take my fly which is wicked cool
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Christmas tree works as well for chum.
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Hot pink rabbit or marabour, chartreuse same materials large Mickey Finns with Florescent yellow hair, bead headed olive wooly buggers have all worked for me. Hot flame polar shrimp style patterns worked great on the Chilliwack years ago but I don't fish them much anymore.
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now if im trying to avoid chum then i use muddlers in natural, olive, blue, chartruese and orange for some reason they dont go for them all that often but coho sure will ;) I have watched coho hiding amongst the chum dart out and take my fly which is wicked cool
Really? That is definitely not my experience, as I catch chum on natural muddlers all the time in the Stave and Nicomen systems and usually in equal or greater numbers as the coho. If I am not getting many bites of either I will switch to pink patterns as the chum definitely like those, or the olive or orange patterns to search specifically for coho.
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The rolled muddler is a great all around fly and it works for coho, springs, and yes...chum (in my experience). It's one of my favorite coho flies, but I've had problems trying to keep springs off it as well (I usually just end up losing the fly). As for chum, I like to use "stinger" leeches (trailing hook), and have had great success with purple flash flies.
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for the slough try tying a natural muddler with a hot orange bead or a flat out orange muddler, you might be pleasantly surprised ;)
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Can't wait for doggies to show up in good numbers! Got a coloured up doe so far this year, bring on the chromers!
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Can't wait for doggies to show up in good numbers! Got a coloured up doe so far this year, bring on the chromers!
The "Halloween Special" won't disappoint you in cloudy water:
(http://www.megafishingmedia.com/products/sfdv01/sfdv01_a.jpg)
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Nice, am looking forward to trying to get them on the dead drift with the 9/10 spey rod.
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Chartreuse flies catch all the chromers on the Squamish and Vedder. The biters always rise up to eat a fly. Line Presentation is key,keep your flly above them. but near the bottom. If you use too heavy a tip then its gonna be snag chum city. Fresher fish I've found will go for a brighter/ flashier fly. The half dead zombies will still bite, wierd.
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Whatever fly you decide to fish just make sure you tie it on a quality hook! Chums are great for testing out all aspects of your gear for sure.
I second Chirstmas trees. Had a crazy day on the chedder last year where a school of fresh chum were taking them one after another. I'm also of the mind though that being one of the more aggressive species of salmon they will take just about anything that looks alive, especially when they're fresh to the system..
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My personal favourite is the Popcicle.
(http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4084/popsicle7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/525/popsicle7.jpg/)
Easy to tie, cheap materials, great fly.
Note this is not my tie, got it on the internet
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Edit: Double post.
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Have been experimenting and have been getting nice ones on all kinds of patterns, popsicles, hot pink and chartreuse buggers, christmas trees, purple egg sucking leeches, big intruders, sparse tiny coho streamers etc. Have found the smaller stuff better for stripping and the bigger stuff for swinging. If they are in thick rolling all over the place you are going to snag a few and I am now liking flies tied on the thinner wire hooks. Have been fishing 15lb leader and if you point the rod at them these will pop or straighten out on foul hooked fish way easier than the heavy meat hooks often before the line breaks, I am not a fan of having to play out a fish hooked in the my friend if at all possible, and if the hook bends out during a fight there are plenty more chum to hook where that one came from.
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Remember its easy to tie flies on 'weedless' hooks too! ;)
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This KILLED chum last october on the stave... Tube fly tied with no weight to stay off the bottom. One nearly swallowed it! I had to cut the leader. Luckily because its a tube, I got to keep the fly, and he only had a size 4 glo bug hook on the back of his tongue :)
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/pnwsteelhead/ViseMarabouTube.jpg)
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/pnwsteelhead/SnowMaraboutube.jpg)