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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: HighCountryHunter88 on September 13, 2019, 01:55:24 PM

Title: Flies for High Lakes
Post by: HighCountryHunter88 on September 13, 2019, 01:55:24 PM: what types of flies work for high lakes this time of year?

thanks
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Post by: Henrydog on September 13, 2019, 01:59:51 PM: Size 14 beadhead pheasant tails, zugbugs and hares ears. All Cutts love red. Balanced leeches work anytime of year
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Post by: Chesterdog on September 13, 2019, 02:41:03 PM: Are you dragging flies around from a float tube or stripping from shore?
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Post by: fly-by on September 13, 2019, 02:53:07 PM: Size 12 Carey special with a size 16 soft hackle 12-18" behind that. Great prospecting rig.
Title: Re: Flies for High Lakes
Post by: HighCountryHunter88 on September 13, 2019, 02:55:45 PM: Quote from: Chesterdog on September 13, 2019, 02:41:03 PM
Are you dragging flies around from a float tube or stripping from shore?

I am throwing them under a float with spinning tackle from shore because i dont know how to fly fish nor do i own a fly rod lol
Title: Re: Flies for High Lakes
Post by: rainshadow1 on September 13, 2019, 03:03:39 PM: Quote from: HighCountryHunter88 on September 13, 2019, 02:55:45 PM
Quote from: Chesterdog on September 13, 2019, 02:41:03 PM
Are you dragging flies around from a float tube or stripping from shore?

I am throwing them under a float with spinning tackle from shore because i dont know how to fly fish nor do i own a fly rod lol

Lots of lakes, without a float tube, that's the best option! Tends to be brushy. Super clear water though, so go with lite stuff and clear bubbles. 4lb main line, 2lb leader is a killer combo. On an honest to goodness ultralight, hard to find one 7ft but if you do... talk about fun! Casts a country mile, but tangles easily.

I've never failed with coachmen, mosquitoes, or their buckskin brown counterparts. Brown and drab. So much fun! Let 'em sink if they sink, no problem, retrieve just fast enough to see a hint of wake, you'll see the swirl when a brookie takes it, the rainbows and cutts usually break the surface.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on September 13, 2019, 03:13:04 PM: Just go with a Mepps 3, in silver, gold, or rainbow and it cant be beat. From last weekends high lake
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Post by: jstone on September 13, 2019, 03:16:52 PM: That looks like so much fun. It’s been to long sense I have done that.
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Post by: HikerHunter on September 13, 2019, 04:40:05 PM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on September 13, 2019, 03:13:04 PM
Just go with a Mepps 3, in silver, gold, or rainbow and it cant be beat. From last weekends high lake

Haha, I was just going to say a spinner can't be beat!

But to really answer the questions, I've had great luck with mosquito's slowly stripping from shore.
Title: Re: Flies for High Lakes
Post by: Alchase on September 13, 2019, 06:07:19 PM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on September 13, 2019, 03:13:04 PM
Just go with a Mepps 3, in silver, gold, or rainbow and it cant be beat. From last weekends high lake

Beautiful picture Skyvalhunter!

A single egg fly was one of the most effective I used in high lakes.
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Post by: JimmyHoffa on September 13, 2019, 07:07:08 PM: I've had best luck with little rubber frog flies.
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Post by: tritt007 on September 13, 2019, 08:32:24 PM: I use those little gold bead nymphs I think they are called? The little flies with the gold bead head and I slay the high mountain trout with them on my ultralight rod with a bubble .