What dry fly is good for MARCH

[jbrownfc]

I'm sorta new to fly fishing and was wondering what are some good march dry flies i live in pittsburgh, Pa

 

[jbomb]

I apologize if you have already done the search, but I find searching for "[stream name] hatch chart" usually turns up some good results for me. If the stream isn't available I look for something more popular that is close. I had some good days with Blue Wing Olives in march, but I'm not in the same part of the state. In April I will look forward to Hendrickson's, March Browns, Grannoms etc... My dad always says "show me a fisherman and I'll so you and optimist." Maybe I'm falling into that category right now. I think stone flies are coming off in some places now too. I guess it depends where you are. Best of luck!

 

[osprey]

J bomb is right............right NOW if you wanna catch one or three on top your best bet is probably a stonefly and it would probably work in nymph , and adult (dry) stoneflies , at least most of our stoneflies crawl out to hatch from a nymph to adult. That is why IMO the nymph and adult are what to concentrate on , especially the adult.

 

[dryflyguy]

#18 BWO's are the only thing I caught fish on during my few outings last month.
But last year - with the very early spring - I fished to blue quill, quill gordon, hendrickson, and grannom hatches in march.
That was very unusual though

 

[turkey]

I agree with DFG about the olives. If I could only have one dry fly in March a bwo would be it. I've never had any luck with stoneflies.

 

[ryguyfi]

#16 elk hair caddis
#22 griffiths gnat

You'll catch fish on those.

 

[Stagger_Lee]

For April? Eastern part of Pa w/in Allentown and Philly area

 

[Stagger_Lee]

fyguyfi wrote:

#16 elk hair caddis
#22 griffiths gnat

You'll catch fish on those.

Seems all the EHC I own are of poor quality ... can seem to thread the tippet thru the hook b/ of design :-x

Griffith gnats during all of spring



////need a jam soon as I'm think my dry presentation sucks and have only caught trout on nymphs ... WW species don't count ;-)

 

[osprey]

Stag........For the real small size hooks 22 and smaller try Orvis Big Eye hooks and the new threader they make with the magnet works way better than i ever thought it would.......small flies are fun and sometimes absolutely necessary .......these two things , which were both gifts , i didn't have much faith in either , but i was real wrong.

 

[gfen]

You could go anywhere in any month and catch a fish on a #16 parachute Adams.

Period.

 

[krayfish]

Gary...... come on. I'll sit on the bank and take notes if you show up at the Tully around July 4th and fish the trico hatch with that thing. Before I get my foot too far into my yapper, Josh cleaned house during the trico hatch on a #14 Hendrickson emerger. Make sense of that

 

[richardebennett]

right.... :roll: :roll:

 

[tulenkot]

If a size 16 parachute adams is not working, try a size 18... If fish are rising, adams will work.