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It doesn't matter where in the world you are doing your trout fishing,
trout will eat just about anything they can swallow. Small Rainbow trout may target mostly aquatic insects,
grasshoppers, snails and beetles while a large Lake trout's diet may include everything a small rainbow
might eat including the rainbow trout plus crayfish, frogs and mice etc. The trout is a carnivore so
fly dressers world wide have spent centuries attempting to make the perfect trout flies by trying to
imitate with fur and feathers. ......................................................
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DRY
FLIES
Dry flies represent adult aquatic insects
or terrestrials like grasshoppers that ride in the surface film. There are several
different insects to imitate such as mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies,
terrestrials, damselflies, and dragonflies, as well as general attractor trout flies. Dries
are the most widely used imitation and with good reason; any fly fisher will tell
you that catching a trout on the surface is the ultimate fly fishing experience
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NYMPHS
& WET FLIES
More than 80% of a trout feeding is
done below the surface; translated this means that, a fly fisher can use this
deadly method around the clock. Weighted trout flies, especially beadheads, are highly
productive patterns especially when teamed with a dropper fly and an indicator.
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 | EMERGERS
When aquatic insects rise to surface
and begin the transformation from a nymph to adult trout are eagerly awaiting,
totally vulnerable at this point trout charge up from the bottom to take these
emerging insects. Unlike a fish sipping on mayflies making only a slight dimple,
emergers are taken with much more aggression breaking the surface and creating
a splash. Mayflies, Caddis, and Midges are the most common types of emergers fly
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STREAMERS
Streamers
represent a broad range of fly patterns from woolly buggers
to sculpinGenerally
streamers are used to catch larger more aggressive trout, that chase and hit with
authority. Usually weighted to get down quickly, always be ready for a thunderous
strike soon after the fly hits the water.
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