types of flies?

[cl3]

OK, photobucket is no bueno... pic is attached now... what are the names of these flies, and when is ideal to use them? Thank you.

 

[redietz]

Left to right:

Wooly bugger.
Mickey Finn bucktail.
Unknown (to me) streamer.
Damsel fly nymph.
Shenk's White Minnow.

I'd fish them all the same -- as streamers, although all but the the Mickey Finn and the unknown can be fished dead drift as well. I would normally only fish them when the water is a bit high, but that's me.

 

[McSneek]

The black, olive and white flies are all bead head woolly buggers.

 

[redietz]

McSneek wrote:
The black, olive and white flies are all bead head woolly buggers.

Look again.

Not everything with a marabou tail is a woolly bugger.

EDIT: Although, when I look again, I can't tell for certain that the white one is what I think it is (spun wool bodied, no hackle). It could also be a white woolly bugger (chenille bodied, palmered hackle.) I just can't tell against the background, no mater how large I blow up the photo.

The olive is definitely not a woolly bugger.

 

[McSneek]

I looked several times before I typed my first reply and I stand by it. All three flies are bead head woolly buggers. They have marabou tails, chenille bodies and a palmered hackle. They're just tied a little differently. For instance the black bugger has a heavier hackle than the olive bugger.

The olive bugger just has more hackle at the collar than the others and it has a bushier tail. I can clearly see palmered white hackle on the white bugger. No way that is a Shenk's white minnow which is made with a spun dubbing loop of sheep's wool trimmed to shape.

 

[redietz]

The damsel nymph does not have a palmered hackle, nor it is tyed with chenille.

You may very well be right about the white one. Or, the body could catcus chenille (making it a sparkle grub). I just can't tell from the photo.

 

[cl3]

Do I need to mail you two one of each for personal inspection?!

 

[redietz]

No, but you could answer a couple of questions:

1) Does the white fly have palmered hackle? (I.e. does it have a feather wrapped around it for the full length of the fly.)

2) Is the body of that fly made of a) wool b) chenille (essentially a pipe cleaner with thread instead of wire) or c) some sparkly plastic looking stuff?

 

[cl3]

The white fly has a clear bead head, and the material that is the tail is tied around a pipe cleaner body. I'd call it hair, not feather.

The black one too, but has gold bead head.

I actually have two versions of the green one, both have a fluffier feather tail AND a more hair-like one wrapping the body pipe cleaner. One has a gold round bead head, and the variant has a more cone-shaped gold head plus some iridescent strips in the body.

 

[ryansheehan]

Streamer, wet fly, wet fly, streamer, streamer, nailed it, first try.

 

[redietz]

Thanks for the clarification -- the McSneek is correct about the white fly -- it's a white woolly bugger.

I'm guessing that one of your olive ones is an olive woolly bugger and the other a damsel nymph. Many damsel nymphs (google and look at pictures) are essentially woolly buggers anyway.

 

[melvinp]

Ideal time to use them Now

 

[cl3]

Thanks men. Tight lines.

 

[cl3]

melivinp: You ever fish the Tunkhannock behind Keystone College? I did a couple of weeks ago before the rains. I tied one of the green wooly buggers above a pheasant tail nymph and caught some creek chubs, on the pheasant tail.

These aren't meant to fished in tandem, are they?

Also, do they work on smallmouth? They are bigger.

 

[redietz]

All of the flies will work very well for smallmouth, and all can be used in tandem with a nymph.