Flies and the insects that they imitate.
This has been a colder than normal winter for Southeastern streams like the Little River in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; and the long term forecasts are for the colder than normal weather to continue in the park as well as across the Southeast.
In cold water streams, sculpins are bottom feeding fish that are difficult to see. There are about 300 species of them, the largest of which grow to about two feet long. Most of them are found in shallow sea waters and others, such as the miller’s-thumb (Cottus gobio), inhabit freshwater. Among the freshwater sculpins, the Cottus genus is by far the most common and is found in the majority of the trout streams in the USA. They generally are a mottled brown in color and grow to about four inches long.
About a year ago, we experimented with making Perfect Flies available for sale on TroutProStore. We started with a select number of flies to imitate the aquatic insects found primarily in the Eastern and Mid Western streams. However, the flies have been received so entheustically and the sales have been so good, that we decided to expand our fly selection not only to the Eastern USA but also to include many if not most of the more common flies found in the Western USA streams.
Be careful to learn the habits of the most common insects in their various stages. For example, some insects hatch in the afternoon or at night; therefore, you don’t need to fish them during the early part of the day. But most important is WHERE DO INSECTS HATCH?
There is a great deal of misconception regarding the hatching of aquatic insects. For example the hatch often referred to in hatch charts is actually when the flies emerge into adults. The actual hatch has already occurred prior to that time. However, for purposes of this article, we will use the standard term for hatch meaning when the flies emerge. It should be noted that insects spend most of their lives as nymphs, pupae or larva. Therefore the trout have far greater opportunity to eat them prior to their emerging. After they emerge as adults, they soon fly away.
Not only does the appearance of the "Perfect Fly" Brown Sculpin closely resemble the sculpin, but its movements and and its behavior also closely resemble that of the actual sculpin. After several tests, we decided to use the eyes but not weight the fly. If the fly had added weight it would not work nearly as well as it does without weight in shallow water.
We at Troutuprostore are constantly adding products that we feel are superior and with that in mind we have elected to sell Bestway Outdoor Super Hair, Unique Hair and Neer Hair. These products are superior replacements for natural hair such as bucktail. Unlike natural fur, the crimp in Super Hair and Unique Hair reflects light in just the same manner as actual fish scales.
This summer is great for washing black ants into the trout stream, so how do we take advantage of the situation?
Light Cahills will be hatching through the end of June. The nymphs are clinger nymphs that spend most of their life cling to the underside of rocks or between the cracks on the bottom of the runs and riffles of the streams. These nymphs need the fast highly oxygenated water to exist and that is why their bodies are made to cling on the bottom of rocks.
Most serious anglers are aware of fly fishing using the imitations of the Quill Gordon aquatic insect. Fishing with the nymph and the emerger prior to the hatch and fishing with the duns can indeed be productive. However, fishing with the spinner imitation fly is not so well known. First, what is a spinner?
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