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11-25-2015, 01:03 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Fly fishing for perch
Anybody try this on Alberta lakes? love fishing for perch and figured it would be fun with a 2 wt or even the 5wt.
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11-25-2015, 02:56 PM
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Indicator and scuds/chironomids/microleech
Boatman, damsels
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11-25-2015, 03:06 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Edmonton
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used my 4wt with sinking tip line in saskatchewan a few times. Lots of fun with tiny wire worms
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11-25-2015, 04:31 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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It worked great in Ontario
They hit just about anything. I had some very crude mosquitoes that I had tied and they worked just fine.
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11-26-2015, 06:52 AM
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You'll get big ones on minnow patterns
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11-26-2015, 07:36 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Mostly sub surface or will they hit off the top too?
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11-26-2015, 10:35 AM
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They were going nuts last summer for dragonfly or damselfly larva patterns. I had such a blast watching my nephews faces as they pulled one after another for hours!
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11-26-2015, 08:19 PM
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Try a #8 or #10 -3x long hook, rolled muddler. It is used on the coast for cut throat trout but works like hot dam on rainbows. Super easy to tie also.
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11-26-2015, 11:14 PM
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I've had the most luck on a size 10 fly that I tie with a flash tail and wrap the body in white hackle it slays
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11-27-2015, 01:13 PM
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Location: Central Alberta
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I've done well on theumpkinhead fly.
Video here: http://youtu.be/qapwaSCXY4g
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11-27-2015, 06:14 PM
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Could someone answer Brandon5555's question about drys? I'm really curious too... that sounds like fun!
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11-27-2015, 06:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JCJ
They were going nuts last summer for dragonfly or damselfly larva patterns. I had such a blast watching my nephews faces as they pulled one after another for hours!
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Check this out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8iIOUEvzVs
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11-27-2015, 06:37 PM
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Location: Central Alberta
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Perch will rise when there is a hatch. Caught perch on caddies dries in Manitoba. I expect that the situation happens everywhere.
Seen small perch rising in Cow Lake.
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11-27-2015, 06:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Andersen
Perch will rise when there is a hatch. Caught perch on caddies dries in Manitoba. I expect that the situation happens everywhere. Seen small perch rising in Cow Lake. Don
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Cool... thats something to remember for next summer. I assume if caddis, then why not other kinds of dry flies... grasshoppers for example.
PS: thanks for the reply!
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11-28-2015, 09:07 PM
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Beauty thanks for the replies! I really wanna give er a go next year. Maybe burntstick or buck
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11-28-2015, 10:16 PM
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Ive literally caught perch on just a bait hook, with no bait!!! Fly fishing for perch isn't much of a challenge, but if your gona do so, a 2 or 3 weight rod would be the way to go!!!
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