Chris, like Yogi Berra said, you see a lot when you observe things. Hey, for the hendrickson and sulphurs do you ever use a lighter color material for the thorax? Best video I ever saw that shows the importance of floating nymph pattern!
Thanks. Love Yogi Berra quotes. They are simple and accurate. You know With the Klinkhammer you can do whatever you want really depending on what you want. In the end its just like a parachute pattern its just the stage before the dun. Vunerable and being that most nymphs tend to be brown it makes sense. I am no expert just trying to to fool them like everyone else. I have some great footage of the nymphs during the hendrickson hatch. It is such a great hatch. So thanks for the kind words. Hope it works for you. Good luck.
@@ChrisWalklet What really stands out to me is how the nymphs are hunchbacked and how they extend there legs out when in the drift, love your stuff - just play more Doors
Hey Chris, decided to tie some up and put them to the test. Yesterday I was on a small ID stream full of wild brown trout. It was a perfect hopper day but they were not interested in large food items. Your fly in a sz 12 consistently pulled nice fish. In one instance I was amazed when a big trout in 2 ft of water moved 3 ft to inhale the bug. something about the abdomen under the surface film is a real trigger. There was no hatch and no concentration of terrestrials on the water. this fly indeed is a good searching pattern. I learned that you need a good amount of quality hackle around the post to keep it visible. The next test is Flat creek on the National elk Refuge. The PMD hatch sputters along all day on the typical bright hot days in mid august that WY is famous for. The Cutties are super picky about what they eat on the surface and they are not consistent in their rise patterns. I think this fly will work!
Hey if it is buggy it is going to work. Nice descriptions I enjoyed the visual. I dry fly fish 99 percent of the time and patterns like this one kind of think nymph and dry. Its a good buggy thing. Flat Creek! Love it. Absolutely beautiful. Watch out for ankle buster holes in the bank as you work th oxbows. I recommend a chernoble ant pattern for that one. Very spooky fish. I fished there for an afternoon and hooked into a beautiful cutthroat on the chernoble ant. It ran on me and then I was got hung up on a full size Elk antler shed that was submerged. I will never forget it. Beautiful country. So many choices. Snake, Hopak, Platte Miricle mile, and my favorite the Green near Pinedale. Just bring armor for the bugs. Mosquitos up top and horse flys below the interstate. Some bruisers in there. Daves Hopper this time of year. All the best my friend.
Not sure if you are on Facebook or not but I just began a group yesterday called REEL LIFE-Fly fishing the world. your welcome to join. just a place to share photos and adventures. I will put a few photos of flat creek and the Green and the Miracle mile up.
@@ChrisWalklet Oh yes Flat Creek, the only place I know where you can fish for hrs and maybe cover a couple hundred yards. If you think you are a good technical angler, come here, bring your A game and you might hook one or if your lucky 2 native fine-spotted cutthroat that push 20 inches and fight like hell!
@@ChrisWalklet Oh the Green River near Pinedale, I floated once in June the horse flies and skeeters where so bad right before our take out, you wanted to jump in the river to get a way from them. Thanks for the heads-up on the FaceBook page - I will sign-up for sure!
@@wyomingtrout5581 Yes the mosquitos were so bad up top I covered myself in mud. No lie. The horse fly's down below were so bad that if you slapped 4 on the one arm 4 more were on the arm that slapped. That is good water though I will suffer. I caught a football rainbow on a hopper down below and when I reeled it in it spit out a live sculpin. I put the sculpin on my fly and threw it back out and almost had my rod ripped out of my hand. I did not land that one. Nice part of the world.
You know you do whatever works LOL. Normally I put something on the post of any parachute but normally not the body. The very small flies I even put it on the tippet leading to the fly to help see it. The beauty of it is figuring it out. This one here is a no-brainer though and great if you still want to fish dry anytime all the time before during and after even when there is not a hatch. Same concept as the Adams parachute...it looks like food.
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Chris, like Yogi Berra said, you see a lot when you observe things. Hey, for the hendrickson and sulphurs do you ever use a lighter color material for the thorax? Best video I ever saw that shows the importance of floating nymph pattern!
Thanks. Love Yogi Berra quotes. They are simple and accurate. You know With the Klinkhammer you can do whatever you want really depending on what you want. In the end its just like a parachute pattern its just the stage before the dun. Vunerable and being that most nymphs tend to be brown it makes sense. I am no expert just trying to to fool them like everyone else. I have some great footage of the nymphs during the hendrickson hatch. It is such a great hatch. So thanks for the kind words. Hope it works for you. Good luck.
@@ChrisWalklet What really stands out to me is how the nymphs are hunchbacked and how they extend there legs out when in the drift, love your stuff - just play more Doors
Cool fly ! Thanks for sharing the video.
Glad you liked it .Let me know how it works for you. All the best.
Nice job Chris. Fantastic music as usual! Will definitely have a few of these in the box this year.
Hey Chris, decided to tie some up and put them to the test. Yesterday I was on a small ID stream full of wild brown trout. It was a perfect hopper day but they were not interested in large food items. Your fly in a sz 12 consistently pulled nice fish. In one instance I was amazed when a big trout in 2 ft of water moved 3 ft to inhale the bug. something about the abdomen under the surface film is a real trigger. There was no hatch and no concentration of terrestrials on the water. this fly indeed is a good searching pattern. I learned that you need a good amount of quality hackle around the post to keep it visible. The next test is Flat creek on the National elk Refuge. The PMD hatch sputters along all day on the typical bright hot days in mid august that WY is famous for. The Cutties are super picky about what they eat on the surface and they are not consistent in their rise patterns. I think this fly will work!
Hey if it is buggy it is going to work. Nice descriptions I enjoyed the visual. I dry fly fish 99 percent of the time and patterns like this one kind of think nymph and dry. Its a good buggy thing. Flat Creek! Love it. Absolutely beautiful. Watch out for ankle buster holes in the bank as you work th oxbows. I recommend a chernoble ant pattern for that one. Very spooky fish. I fished there for an afternoon and hooked into a beautiful cutthroat on the chernoble ant. It ran on me and then I was got hung up on a full size Elk antler shed that was submerged. I will never forget it. Beautiful country. So many choices. Snake, Hopak, Platte Miricle mile, and my favorite the Green near Pinedale. Just bring armor for the bugs. Mosquitos up top and horse flys below the interstate. Some bruisers in there. Daves Hopper this time of year. All the best my friend.
Not sure if you are on Facebook or not but I just began a group yesterday called REEL LIFE-Fly fishing the world. your welcome to join. just a place to share photos and adventures. I will put a few photos of flat creek and the Green and the Miracle mile up.
@@ChrisWalklet Oh yes Flat Creek, the only place I know where you can fish for hrs and maybe cover a couple hundred yards. If you think you are a good technical angler, come here, bring your A game and you might hook one or if your lucky 2 native fine-spotted cutthroat that push 20 inches and fight like hell!
@@ChrisWalklet Oh the Green River near Pinedale, I floated once in June the horse flies and skeeters where so bad right before our take out, you wanted to jump in the river to get a way from them. Thanks for the heads-up on the FaceBook page - I will sign-up for sure!
@@wyomingtrout5581 Yes the mosquitos were so bad up top I covered myself in mud. No lie. The horse fly's down below were so bad that if you slapped 4 on the one arm 4 more were on the arm that slapped. That is good water though I will suffer. I caught a football rainbow on a hopper down below and when I reeled it in it spit out a live sculpin. I put the sculpin on my fly and threw it back out and almost had my rod ripped out of my hand. I did not land that one. Nice part of the world.
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Nice pattern Chris. Do you use floatent when you fish emergers like this?
You know you do whatever works LOL. Normally I put something on the post of any parachute but normally not the body. The very small flies I even put it on the tippet leading to the fly to help see it. The beauty of it is figuring it out. This one here is a no-brainer though and great if you still want to fish dry anytime all the time before during and after even when there is not a hatch. Same concept as the Adams parachute...it looks like food.