Madonna
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Eric,
I’m vacation on the Ausable this year during the first week of July, should I be throwing streamers?
As others have already commented, definitely plan on throwing some streamers.
Jim, that’s a good point and I agree with you 100%. I’ve been fishing barbless on all my hooks for years, …..including these big streamers. I’m still having this problem even though they have the barb mashed down. Although, I haven’t really noticed this problem on other flies with large hooks. It has been especialy apparent with the SD, which is the first articulated pattern I have used.
The only other thing I can think of is to touch up sharpening on the hook points.
Another place you might never consider a streamer river, but where I’ve had good success with them, is the San Juan in New Mexico. I had a TU meeting in Durango in mid May of 2007 and had hoped to fish some mountain streams, but they were all blown out with runoff. In fact, my meeting was in a hotel whose property ran alongside the Animas, and on breaks we’d all stand and stare out the windows, wishing the water was fishable.
Anyway, the only place I could find to fish that wasn’t blown out was the San Juan’s Quality Water. It had “flushing flows” of about 2000 cfs, so wading wasn’t an option. I hired a guide and a drift boat for two days to bookend my meeting. On the first day, we started with double nymph rigs under indicators, and cleaned up with size 20 red annelids.
At lunch, the guide asked if I’d brought any heavy artillery and if I’d like to try something different. (While he’d guided on the Juan for years, he was a pike fisher at heart.) He slipped a big lead conehead on my leader, tied on the biggest, ugliest streamer I had in my box, and we pounded the banks all afternoon, harassing many browns and rainbows.
After our meeting, I brought a buddy along and we stripped streamers all day long. In fact, we started calling him Hoover for the way he seemed to suck fish right out of the river with his big bunny leech pattern. And it gave us immense pleasure to be coasting along slamming the banks as we watched the flotilla of nymphers following each other slowly through the slower water.
Mick,
Streamer fishing is definitely one of my favorite methods, and often yields unexcpectedly productive results from rivers and water that is not thought of as ” prime streamer water.”
Thought I would share pictures of a green and white Madonna variant tied the other night.
Almost ate it myself.
I’ve been fishing a streamer pattern that i created similiar to that for about 5 years or so…i must agree keeping the head “loose” is the way to go, the deer hair gives it a neat action in the water, sort of suspending the fly slightly off the bottom (depending how much weightyou have built in it…)
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