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03-12-2016, 08:45 PM
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What are ur guys favourite streamers for bull trout, just getting into fly tying and would like to know what to tie (pictures to please).
Thanks to everyone
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03-12-2016, 10:32 PM
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Just start with a 2/0 salmon hook (and an extended shank if you like) and keep jamming stuff on it until it's the approximate size of a TV remote. Bull trout streamers are really fun to tie, I started making my own zonker strips from rabbits I shoot. Winter snowshoe hare hair is about 3x as long as store bought zonkers, it's like casting a mop.
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03-13-2016, 11:46 AM
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I have tried many over the years and now keep 1 blue/white lefty's deceiver with me at it works the best so far short of a small cutthroat at the end of the line.
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03-13-2016, 05:42 PM
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For the most part, any fish that likes to eat other fish, can be caught on a Lefty's Deceiver or a Clouser pattern, then there is the 1/2 & 1/2 combo of the two. You can tie them from minnow size to as long as you can find the material for. Blue, red or chartreuse bucktail or calftail or polar bear over white, are probably the three most common combos people will tie up.
The other one that will usually get hits, is called a "flash fly", made entirely of synthetic flash materials, usually pearl and silver with some red in it. You can vary the colour blends in it, to whatever turns your crank.
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03-16-2016, 12:41 PM
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This is a legitimate 10" fly that consists of two 2/0 hooks, a 85mm shank and a 25mm shank that I typically use for bulls. If people say they are using 10" flies they probably are not but they really should be.
If it ain't chartreuse, it ain't no use is very applicable to bull trout as well.
the smaller fish will eat them as well so don't be put off by sheer size thinking you will only catch monsters. Are these flies really "fly fishing"? Honestly, I don't really care. I have fun catching them and just as much fun spinning them up!
Feel free to PM me if you have any questions or would wanna trade a few bugs possibly!
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03-16-2016, 12:51 PM
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If you can pick up your bull with one hand....your fly must not be big enough yet 
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03-16-2016, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by goldscud
If you can pick up your bull with one hand....your fly must not be big enough yet |
I said the smaller fish will eat the big flies as well. I meant that to imply that fly size does not relate to the fish size but I guess I didn't get that across. Sorry for trying to help a guy out with my experiences.
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03-16-2016, 02:37 PM
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"If it ain't chartreuse, it ain't no use is very applicable to bull trout as well."
Nobody ever caught those fish until Chartreuse showed up. Thanks for coming out.........
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03-16-2016, 02:49 PM
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Chill man, just joking around. I'm not skilled enough to cast those big flies like you guys
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03-16-2016, 03:25 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lannie
"If it ain't chartreuse, it ain't no use is very applicable to bull trout as well."
Nobody ever caught those fish until Chartreuse showed up. Thanks for coming out.........
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wow really? why did you bother coming out? tough day at home?
on another note awesome ties Chief!
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03-16-2016, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by goldscud
Chill man, just joking around. I'm not skilled enough to cast those big flies like you guys
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Chill? I was not angry or anything along those lines, sorry if I came across that way.
Honestly, there is no skill in casting these flies. You strip line out, slap it behind you and haul it out. Wouldn't even call it fly casting most of the time honestly haha
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03-16-2016, 08:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lannie
"If it ain't chartreuse, it ain't no use is very applicable to bull trout as well."
Nobody ever caught those fish until Chartreuse showed up. Thanks for coming out.........
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Um what. Lol.
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03-16-2016, 09:01 PM
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Alot of my bulltrout patterns have very little or zero Chartreuse in them
I have caught big bulls (10lbs plus) on nymphs and drys in the size 10-8 area
My streamers which have caught bulls/dollys in the 15lb and up area are nothing close to the length of some of the stuff im seeing. It is not always *big fly big fish*
Look at chironomids, iv caught massive rainbows on size 16-18 chironomids
Different hearing what others have success with. Iv tried the huge flys and they seem to only do best with pike and walleye for me.
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03-16-2016, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyTheory
Um what. Lol.
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I think he is poking fun at what the guy said, as in *oh guess we never caught bulls until the color chartreuse was being made in flys* kinda thing.
My flys rarely have chartreuse in them and iv caught bull for over a decade lol
some guys swear by the color and its all they use
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03-16-2016, 09:24 PM
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Troutbug, I swear by graying colour!
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03-16-2016, 09:32 PM
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Troutbug, I swear by graying colour!
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Me to lol, these bad boys have caught me some huge bulls and pike and they are only 4 inches long
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03-16-2016, 09:48 PM
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What ever works, just having some fun.
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03-16-2016, 11:15 PM
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Troutbug, I swear by graying colour!
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I didn't know you actually ended up fishing that fly. Too pretty for me to ever fish
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03-17-2016, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Chief16
I didn't know you actually ended up fishing that fly. Too pretty for me to ever fish
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Honestly it out fished the chartreuse fly. But the white one I tied with fins worked the best by far. I'm gonna tie more grayling flies though.
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03-17-2016, 02:17 PM
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I am going to tie up some bigger circus peanuts and give those a try.
I am thinking of making it look like a Cutty and in the 6-10 inch range.
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03-17-2016, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by goldscud
If you can pick up your bull with one hand....your fly must not be big enough yet |
Chief16 actually has caught a ton of pig bull trout. He's just too modest.
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Big, white, and hairy. After years of chasing monsters in Grande Cache, big white and hairy is the best way to go.
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03-17-2016, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by 1/2 oz Bucktail
Big, white, and hairy. After years of chasing monsters in Grande Cache, big white and hairy is the best way to go.
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funny you mention GC, when I first tied the flys I shared above, it was in GC when we lived there and that is where I caught some huge bulls with them
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03-18-2016, 12:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyTheory
Chief16 actually has caught a ton of pig bull trout. He's just too modest.
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The definition of pig differs from person to person..... So's the qty of ton.
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03-18-2016, 01:43 PM
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The definition of pig differs from person to person..... So's the qty of ton.
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LOL true enough
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03-18-2016, 09:24 PM
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Re: Flieguy... "Just start with a 2/0 salmon hook (and an extended shank if you like) and keep jamming stuff on it until it's the approximate size of a TV remote"
Hilarious... thanks for the laugh!
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03-19-2016, 08:26 AM
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03-19-2016, 09:09 AM
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Those are very nice Lornce! Experience shows
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03-19-2016, 11:42 PM
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Very nice Lornce. I doubt they can say no
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03-20-2016, 08:07 AM
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That one, pretty much pegs something with all the right attributes of a streamer.
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