Brook trout flies

[hedgesd]

I've doing a lot of fly tying lately and wonder what your favorite fly for Brookies is. I normally use black leeches and princes but looking for new ideas.
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[doggonefishin]

I always seem to hammer the brookies on brown colored patterns, especially a size 14 or 16 adams. They seem to prefer brown over greys or black patterns. (Just my observation.)
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[bassfinder]

My favorite dry for brookies is a blue dun.
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[Matador]

It all depends on where the brookie lives. In higher alpine lakes, like the Uintas, I like renegades and mosquitos. I also have a few patterns of my own that are killers. But I catch as many on gray flies as brown. I have not had as much luck on black, but I don't try it much anymore either because I don't need to.

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[gshadow]

I have always caught them on renegades they work, so haven't tried others if someting works don't fix it.[]
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[cat_man]

When you go to the high uintah mountain lakes where you have to pack in there, the fish will hit just about anything including a bare hook. I've even seen a TON of them caught on a bright pink dry fly, a bright baby blue dry as well. I usually usually use a mosquito or midge pattern or a renegade though. Like I said up there almost anything works. For nymphs they seem to like the darker ones better. A great pattern is a zug bug. I've never caught brookies anywhere else.
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[fishmagnet]

Other than matching the hatch I like a beadhead bugger with a blue sparkle body and a black tail and hackle. Some people say they like bright green and also flies that have the colors of a brook trout fin seem to be good attractors. I often fish Uinta streams by casting a royal trude upstream and then let it drift all the way down below me and then strip it in. The fly will be pulled under the surface and the strikes are savage.

FM
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[TubeDude]

[cool][blue][size 1]Hey, Bro, Brookies are well known in the eastern states and Canada for liking bright colors and big flies. Look up the patterns for the old Parmachene Belle and the Mickey Finn. These are famous brookie bombers.[/size][/blue]

[#0000ff][size 1]Myself, I like big black offerings, and black and white is a good contrast fly. I also do well on "fry flies", with either gold or silver tinsel bodies.[/size][/#0000ff]

[#0000ff][size 1]When I lived in California, I did very well on the high mountain (Sierras) brookies with a "California Coachman"...same as the Royal Coachman only with hot orange body instead of red. I tied them up on size 12 3X long shank, with white calftail wings, for the larger fish. I also tied them down to size 18, on light wire dry fly hooks, for fishing behind a bubble. I once got a 3# brown out of a high Sierra Lake on a size 16 Cal Coachman, on 2# line, in a lake that was full of stunted brookies. I did not know there was anything else in there until the stray brownie slurped in my tiny coachman.[/size][/#0000ff]

[#0000ff][size 1]If you want a pic, PM me and I will tie up a couple and scan them for you.[/size][/#0000ff]

[#0000ff][size 1]Also, one of my favorite all around flies, for all species, is the Silver Hilton. It is a steelhead pattern from the Pacific Northwest, but I have never found a species of trout that didn't like it. Caught a 5# brookie on one is Island Park Idaho. Here's a pic of the hilton.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[FlyFishingMoose]

TD nice looking flies, are those ones you tied? If so you sure do a fine job, you never cease to amaze me, you are quite a talented guy.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][blue][size 1]Thanks for the good words, FFM. When I spend some time back on the vise, I can sometimes turn out some creditable creations. Those flies were actually some I made several years ago. I do not do much fly fishing down here in Arizona, although I do sometimes add a fly as a dropper above a jig or a small crankbait...or a spinner.[/size][/blue]

[#0000ff][size 1]I started tying flies before age 10, as a kid in Idaho. I was pretty rough until I got some lessons in my high school years, while living in California. Honed my craft to the point I sold my stuff in a couple of stores in Provo, back in the college days. In fact, some of my streamers from that time were the only things that caught the "pike" (walleyes) legally down in the lower Provo. Everybody else was using the Provo "dry flies"...treble hooks with lead on them. [/size][/#0000ff]

[#0000ff][size 1]I used to be able to turn out stuff down to about size 18 or 20, but I hate tying little flies and I hate fishing them. Barely hook the slime in the fish's mouth. When others fling the bitsy bugs, I dredge with something more meaty, and usually take the bigger fish.[/size][/#0000ff]

[#0000ff][size 1]Back to the brookie issue, I reiterate that they DO like brighter colors at times. Up in Henry's Lake, in Idaho, most of the big cuttbows and brookies are taken on damsel nymphs and scuds. But, once in awhile you can wake up a snooty big brookie with something in basic orange, red or yellow. [/size][/#0000ff]

[#0000ff][size 1]I used to tie a pattern for a buddy who fished the lake a lot. It was layers of black, white and orange...just like a brookie fin. That's what we called it and it got a lot of big fish for him. (orange body, white underwing and black overwing.)[/size][/#0000ff]
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[TheJensenKid15]

The one fish I've fly fished for and actually caught! Up in Idaho, on the Big Lost river, them big brookies would slurp down a fly called the "Mackie Special". It was pretty much a big brown fly with some black thread. I used to be able to catch a brookie or two every cast(the rig up my grandpa and I used consisted of 2 flys-1 a mackie special, the other a royal coachman). Normally, the flys were big. Like a size 6 or 4. I caught one brookie the last summer I was there that was about 24" long. It fought like a s.o.b. I didn't have a problem releasing him. It was one of the most beautiful fish I've ever laid my eyes on. They are really fun to get after with a fly. I hope this helps even a little bit. I know it'll work for you when you get after them.
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