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[BruceC2C]

Let's say u r on the water ( NOT a spring creek) this time of year.
Typical early March conditions, but no extremes today.

This is your first time ever, on this water.
Low gradient. Flow appears to be average for this time of year.
Riffles mixed with stretches of 18-24" deep running pools.
Modest, notable features,....but not showing deeper 3+ foot depth pockets.

Mid Afternoon on water with good history for residents & holdover trout.
No apparent rises. No bugs visible.

I forgot my seining net, I normally use to kick up streambed rocks & ID nymphs present.

You have option to start working either up or downstream.
You have 60 minutes to fish, wading very manageable 60' wide stream.

What is first fly u tie on.?
How do u manage / approach the 60 minutes time u have for the day?

 

[Canoetripper]

I would probably go with wooly buggers in either black or olive. Since I have so many fly rods, and support my local fly shops, I ask them to pick out six wet flies to do the same thing with.

They know that I am a loyal and reliable customer.

 

[redietz]

Size 14 brown hackle peacock on top dropper and a size 18 pheasant tail soft hackle on point.

 

[JimNovo]

I’d go dry dropper with a size 14 Adam’s parachute on top and a size 18 hares ear below.

I’d work upstream, focusing on the seams and pools.

 

[hooker-of-men]

A big beadhead Pat's with a 16 or so nondescript caddis pupa pattern trailing behind it fished under a bobber to work up. A bugger in olive or black to work back down to the car.

 

[ryc72]

Size 12 Pink Squirmy worm
Size 14 orange egg
Size 16 bead head flashback pheasant tail
Size 16 Orange tungsten bead Walt’s worm
Size 16 bead head shop vac
Size 16 lightning bug or rainbow warrior.
Can’t go wrong with any of the above Oct through April.

 

[tomgamber]

Depends on my mood but yeah, buggers or an Adams. Had to laugh when the first responses were one of each.

 

[gulfgreyhound]

Hares Ear. GG

 

[wgmiller]

With only 60 minutes, I'd work upstream fishing the likely holding water.

As far as flies go, #14 Guide's Choice Hare's Ear (jig) on the point with a #18 Frenchie (jig) on the dropper...

 

[Bamboozle]

Based on your conditions, my first choice would be a flashback beadhead, size 14.

Then a beadhead Prince Nymph, maybe a size 16.

Followed by a Partridge & Peacock soft hackle, size 12 and if that didn't produce results, a size 16 Snipe & Purple soft hackle under a size 14 EWC.

After that....oops, times up!!

 

[Acristickid]

Tie on a Mop fly. Sit on bank for 45 minutes observing, nymph the best run for 15 minutes go home till the fish are rising.

 

[nomad_archer]

Walts worm on a tag and a black midge on the point. If I needed I'd swap to a caddis dry/dropper rig if I needed to fish with an indicator type rig.

 

[dubthethorax]

Size 16 egg with a size 22 al's rat trailer, bottom bounced.

 

[tjsingle]

Small streamer (Try to generate a strike or a flash to locate fish, if you can't hook one), than nymph with a zebra midge or frenchie.

 

[Tups]

tail fly black wet fly 14. Twenty inches above that a 14 Greenwells Glory for a dropper.

 

[Tups]

I start at the bottom of the riffle and work my way across and downstream into the pool.

 

[Balt Co Wanderer]

Dry dropper with a size 16 elk hair caddis to match anything I’ve seen hatching trailed with either a pink frenchie or a hares ear.

When the caddis start to hatch I’d drop with a z wing caddis in green.

This last year, I’d just end up throwing a massive streamer in all actuality, though.

 

[krayfish2]

Let's say u r on the water ( NOT a spring creek) this time of year.
Typical early March conditions, but no extremes today.

This is your first time ever, on this water.
Low gradient. Flow appears to be average for this time of year.
Riffles mixed with stretches of 18-24" deep running pools.
Modest, notable features,....but not showing deeper 3+ foot depth pockets.

Mid Afternoon on water with good history for residents & holdover trout.
No apparent rises. No bugs visible.

I forgot my seining net, I normally use to kick up streambed rocks & ID nymphs present.

You have option to start working either up or downstream.
You have 60 minutes to fish, wading very manageable 60' wide stream.

What is first fly u tie on.?
How do u manage / approach the 60 minutes time u have for the day?

You leave the Tully and come back in a month 😉🤣

 

[Sconnie]

Hares ear 16-18
Copper j 16
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Not covering much ground moving slow hit those pockets.

 

[kbobb]

Squirmy, egg, or mop. Until you see BWO or stones then switch.