Bill Kiene semi-retired
08-27-2009, 08:13 AM
Lets talk about our favorite Half-pounder Steelhead flies for the Lower American River for swinging down and across with a floating line:
I like size #8 -12 mostly on a 9' leader with 2x tippet. Early and late seems to be best......
Lots of caddis pupa variations are good.
Any small classic fly like a Brindle Bug or Silver Hilton are good.
Jeff Putnam's favorite some years back was the Dave Whitlock "Fox Squirrel nymph".
Galan Geller would tie up something different every day some hears ago. We had one we called the "Yellow Sledgehammer".
When they first come in "late August/early September" they will eat lots of small flies but after a while they sometimes key in on the caddis hatches and you need to fish trout tactics for them "matching the hatch".
I think that just about any size #8-12 nymph will work too.
I like size #8 -12 mostly on a 9' leader with 2x tippet. Early and late seems to be best......
Lots of caddis pupa variations are good.
Any small classic fly like a Brindle Bug or Silver Hilton are good.
Jeff Putnam's favorite some years back was the Dave Whitlock "Fox Squirrel nymph".
Galan Geller would tie up something different every day some hears ago. We had one we called the "Yellow Sledgehammer".
When they first come in "late August/early September" they will eat lots of small flies but after a while they sometimes key in on the caddis hatches and you need to fish trout tactics for them "matching the hatch".
I think that just about any size #8-12 nymph will work too.