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Fishing in British Columbia => Fly Fishing Cafe => Topic started by: fly fisher on July 01, 2010, 12:09:40 AM

Title: crappie flies
Post by: fly fisher on July 01, 2010, 12:09:40 AM: going out tomorrow need to buy or tie some flies what would worek the best
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Post by: newsman on July 02, 2010, 11:41:40 PM: Black Gnat or Trico mayfly
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Post by: BCfisherman97 on July 03, 2010, 12:23:11 PM: Bread flies and micro-leeches ;)
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Post by: BCfisherman97 on July 03, 2010, 12:24:28 PM: Sorry I thought you were asking about carp flies. :P
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Post by: newsman on July 04, 2010, 02:54:47 PM: Add this; "Chartreuse boobie." worked good in area 51 yesterday.
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Post by: fly fisher on July 06, 2010, 12:56:42 PM: i have 2 that worked for me just as the sun goes down a tom thumb and a pumpkin head
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Post by: fossil on July 07, 2010, 05:47:45 PM: #12-14, bead chain eye, olive micro leech.
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Post by: fly fisher on July 08, 2010, 12:03:31 AM: hey fossil were you out a couple days ago at whonnock fishing of the dock if you were my dad gave you the crappie. could you send pics of the fly if possible thanks
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Post by: Matt B. on July 11, 2010, 03:43:38 PM: I could tie some up for you for a couple bucks. they work really well for most freshwater fish. ive even caught trout off of them

(http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/MattBag/dhaiskfasfsafadfasfdsf033.jpg)
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Post by: fossil on July 12, 2010, 01:34:00 PM: Quote from: fly fisher on July 08, 2010, 12:03:31 AM
hey fossil were you out a couple days ago at whonnock fishing of the dock if you were my dad gave you the crappie. could you send pics of the fly if possible thanks

Good to see you fly fisher. I usually use two flies(#12) for crappie at Whonnock.

Bead chain eye leech

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg217/fossil1967/Fly%20Tying/zhaojun/C01.jpg)

Chief

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg217/fossil1967/Fly%20Tying/zhaojun/17.jpg)
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Post by: fly fisher on July 12, 2010, 05:59:56 PM: i slayed them with a goddard caddis yesterday land 105 fish all crappie. i also got knocked out of my kayak when mr beaver decided to do a little flip under it jaws came into my mind then
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Post by: newsman on July 12, 2010, 06:12:20 PM: Smoken! Crappie on Whonnock is the best dry fly action in the lower mainland. Good for you Fly. Keep it up and one day that lake will up one of it's rare lunker trout (10lb).
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Post by: fly fisher on July 12, 2010, 06:55:10 PM: Quote from: newsman on July 12, 2010, 06:12:20 PM
Smoken! Crappie on Whonnock is the best dry fly action in the lower mainland. Good for you Fly. Keep it up and one day that lake will up one of it's rare lunker trout (10lb).
we went out today and my dad was float fishing and i was dry fly fishing with a tom thumb and was catching crappie from right beside his float. their are really trout that big in that lake
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Post by: fly fisher on July 12, 2010, 07:10:23 PM: newsman what are the best dry fly patterns for whonnock
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Post by: Bassonator on July 21, 2010, 06:47:13 AM: http://www.kwsu.org/Offers/FlyTying.aspx (http://www.kwsu.org/Offers/FlyTying.aspx)

check out the panfish flys.
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Post by: newsman on August 01, 2010, 10:34:23 PM: Just got back in town fly fish. I have found Royal Coachman, Royal Wulff, Black Gnat (tie them yourself with a spars body, store brands are to thick), and Tom Thumb to be best.
Title: Re: crappie flies
Post by: lovetofish on August 02, 2010, 07:35:05 PM: Quote from: Matt B. on July 11, 2010, 03:43:38 PM
I could tie some up for you for a couple bucks. they work really well for most freshwater fish. ive even caught trout off of them

(http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/MattBag/dhaiskfasfsafadfasfdsf033.jpg)

Matt B., Is that just an olive woolly bugger on a 1/8 jig hook?

Are there crappie in Hatzic Lake also?
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Post by: FishOn36 on August 02, 2010, 08:56:16 PM: Quote from: lovetofish on August 02, 2010, 07:35:05 PM
Are there crappie in Hatzic Lake also?

Yes there is, I don't know how the fishing is in there now seeing as I haven't been there in probably just over a decade.... Give it a try!