12-14-2009, 02:20 AM
[quote flygoddess]Also, try a Griffith, or Caddis on top with a small Midge Pupa dropper like a Serendipity, or Zebra. [/quote]
I will second this. I too recently got into fly fishing and was struggling on the river (Provo). Then about mid-September, I started going up to Tibble Fork Res. and had better success with the browns and stocked rainbows. My favorite time to fish is about the time the sun goes behind the mountains or about an hour before sunset. I tie on a black-bodied Elk Hair Caddis (or Royal Wulff) with a Zebra Midge below it. I will cast near the moss islands and let it sit. I'll count to twenty and then start stripping it in. Usually, the fish will hit the Zebra before the twenty seconds are up. If not, they will hit either hit the EHC or the Zebra during the strip more often than not.
As a newbie, I enjoyed this kind of fly fishing because I was able to practice my casting, have the possibility of catching fish on or below surface, and catch fish on an fly that I tied, which is the Zebra Midge with a flour. pink collar (see YouTube link).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9jSjEdvvgU
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I will second this. I too recently got into fly fishing and was struggling on the river (Provo). Then about mid-September, I started going up to Tibble Fork Res. and had better success with the browns and stocked rainbows. My favorite time to fish is about the time the sun goes behind the mountains or about an hour before sunset. I tie on a black-bodied Elk Hair Caddis (or Royal Wulff) with a Zebra Midge below it. I will cast near the moss islands and let it sit. I'll count to twenty and then start stripping it in. Usually, the fish will hit the Zebra before the twenty seconds are up. If not, they will hit either hit the EHC or the Zebra during the strip more often than not.
As a newbie, I enjoyed this kind of fly fishing because I was able to practice my casting, have the possibility of catching fish on or below surface, and catch fish on an fly that I tied, which is the Zebra Midge with a flour. pink collar (see YouTube link).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9jSjEdvvgU
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