11-19-2013, 06:00 AM
Scud, sowbug, and midge patterns usually work all winter long. I haven't fished any of the local streams during the winter recently other than one insane venture in January of this year on a day when the high was 6 degrees. I had a couple of hits on olive Ray Charles scuds on the Spanish Fork river, but didn't catch anything. It was a fools errand, but I needed to fish and it wasn't getting any warmer. The people walking on the spanish fork river trail were looking at me like I was nuts. They may have been right.
Anyway, I've also had success on warmer days with attractor dries like royal wulff and even stonefly patterns that I was using as indicators in a dry/dropper rig. Not a normal thing, but it worked. It's really cool to watch a trout dart out from under an ice shelf on the edge of a pool to hit a dry.
Matt
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Anyway, I've also had success on warmer days with attractor dries like royal wulff and even stonefly patterns that I was using as indicators in a dry/dropper rig. Not a normal thing, but it worked. It's really cool to watch a trout dart out from under an ice shelf on the edge of a pool to hit a dry.
Matt
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