Flies for Georgia Trout

[King Fisher]

Gentlemen (and Ladies),
I am fairly new to fly fishing in Georgia. I will be mixing up my trout fishing between large rivers ie. Chattahoochee, and smaller streams, ie. Amicolola Creek. Would you please give me some feedback on, say, a dozen, fly patterns that I must have and the corresponding sizes. This goes for wets, dries, nymphs, and streamers. Most of my fishing will be done from Spring to Fall, and I'm most interested in dry fly fishing, so please keep that in mind.
I would greatly appreciate your help.

Best Regards,

King Fisher

[fishinbub]

I'm not exactly a pro fly fisher(not for trout anyways:rolleyes:)but wooly boogers(olive about size 6-10 maybe?)are a must, and of course soft hackles. Especially starling and purple. Elk hair caddis are really popular in the spring, and very small BWO, or blue wing olive.(18+ is best but bigger sizes work too, 10+). Hope this helps.

Tight lines,
Sam

[rainbowlover]

Gentlemen (and Ladies),
I am fairly new to fly fishing in Georgia. I will be mixing up my trout fishing between large rivers ie. Chattahoochee, and smaller streams, ie. Amicolola Creek. Would you please give me some feedback on, say, a dozen, fly patterns that I must have and the corresponding sizes. This goes for wets, dries, nymphs, and streamers. Most of my fishing will be done from Spring to Fall, and I'm most interested in dry fly fishing, so please keep that in mind.
I would greatly appreciate your help.

Best Regards,

King Fisher

ill give you 3 or so of the basics from all of the categories you listed

wet flies:
1.various soft hackles 14-20
2. any classic wet: like a flymph
3. various midge and bwo emergers: 18-24's

dries:
1. bwo's: 18-24
2. adams 14-22
3. stimulator: size 12-16

nymphs:
1. pheasant tail nymphs: 14-20
2. hares ear nymph 12-18
3.prince nymph: 14-18

streamers:
1. olive wooly boogers: 8-12
2. bucktail streamer's (clouser, mickey finn) 6-10
3. did i say wooly boogers in other various colors:D

hope this helps as these are my go to's

landon

[King Fisher]

Awesome advice gentlemen. I really appreciate it.
Any others?

[bow]

I would say Landon did a great job summing it all up for ya. I might would add some egg patterns and sjw (san juan worms), works great for top flies on dh streams with various nymphs that Landon named.
Bow

[King Fisher]

Should I get Parachute dries or std. dries?

[wishin iwas fishin]

ill give you 3 or so of the basics from all of the categories you listed

wet flies:
1.various soft hackles 14-20
2. any classic wet: like a flymph
3. various midge and bwo emergers: 18-24's

dries:
1. bwo's: 18-24
2. adams 14-22
3. stimulator: size 12-16

nymphs:
1. pheasant tail nymphs: 14-20
2. hares ear nymph 12-18
3.prince nymph: 14-18

streamers:
1. olive wooly boogers: 8-12
2. bucktail streamer's (clouser, mickey finn) 6-10
3. did i say wooly boogers in other various colors:D

hope this helps as these are my go to's

landon


Landon, you are a sponge. I've never seen anyone obtain so much information about fly fishing and trout fishing in such little time. Keep it up and you'll be teaching all of us a thing or two in no time.

[AM]

I have probably 100 different patterns in my flyboxes but the ones listed below are what I chtch 90% of my fish on.


Wooly Buggers #10-12 both bead head and non bead in olive, brown and black

Gold Ribbed Hares Ear #12-16 bead head and non bead
Phesant Tail Nymph #16-20

Adams #12-24
Light Cahill #16-18
BWO #16-24

Y2K, San Juan Worms (pink, hot pink), pink glow ball

Soft Hackles #14-16

[baldea]

One key fly that these young kids have forgot is CADDIS.

Chattahoochee DH black caddis 14-18.

Another that I'd throw in the box would be some lightning bugs.

Also to get more fly suggestions than you'd be able to carry is do a search for go to fly's on X river/stream. Loads of threads similar to this.

[rainbowlover]

One key fly that these young kids have forgot is CADDIS.

Chattahoochee DH black caddis 14-18.

Another that I'd throw in the box would be some lightning bugs.

Also to get more fly suggestions than you'd be able to carry is do a search for go to fly's on X river/stream. Loads of threads similar to this.

i threw in the stimulator as it can cover bigger caddis, stoneflies and some mayflies. just a 2 for the price of one deal imo;)

[terry creech]

and remember, at least 80% of what a trout eats is subsurface. That said, for dry fishing in north GA streams (above the Hooch here in metro), a Yellow Humpy is a killer. And you gotta love the name. My wife walked in one night as a friend of mine and I were comparing Stimulators to Humpys over the phone and started beating me with a spoon.

[terry creech]

Sorry,meant to mention this in the post above. Parachutes present a better profile or footprint on the water (esp. slower water where fish get to take a longer look at your fly) as they sit "lower" in the water, probably giving an emerger effect to your presentation. They're also easier to see of course. I'm no expert on anything, much less dries (I nymph mostly), but I think many, if not most fish are taking emergers as they're easier pickins'.

[King Fisher]

Terry,
when you say emerger, are you talking nymphs, or wet flies. Sorry for my ignorance on the topic...just getting back into this.


King Fisher

[fishnpreacher]

Emergers are actually neither wet, nymph, or dry. Emergers sit in the surface film, resembling an emerging fly. Look at Cabelas or Orvis site at some emerger patterns.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/common/search/search-results1.jsp?QueryText=emerger&N=4887&Ntk=Products&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=emerger&noImage=0

[orange_spokes]

i believe and someone correct me if im wrong an emerger is an aquatic insect getting ready to hatch and is either on top of the water or starting to fly...(keep in mind i have no knowledge of this...its just a shot in the dark:) )

[stiffhackle]

IMO, emergers (which I define as something that rises to the surface just prior to exiting its nymphal shuch and taking flight) are best replicated with wet flies, I say that in part because of how they are fished the majority of the time. My favorite is the soft hackle, with different materials and colors you can come up with 100 different SH patterns that will catch fish. Swing anything buggy looking (that at least somewhat resembles the types of bugs expected to be in the area) through trouty water and you'll see what I mean. That being said, you can pretty much turn any nymph or flymph into an emerger by fishing with a swing method or something similar (basically anything that keeps the fly high in the water column). It's obviously a bit more challenging to do this with heavier nymphs, but swing a little midge or pheasant tail without an indicator and weight and there you go. Or fish something small with a greased leader and your fly will hang up in the water column (this method can be absolutely deadly at the right time). Keep in mind that trout that are keyed on emergers are probabaly looking a bit higher in the water column than they normally would (they are not exactly gobbling along the bottom:) ). At other times, I will also fish small "emerger" patterns (WD40, micro PT, etc.) like a nymph with indicator and weight.

- stiffhackle

[King Fisher]

Oustanding information gentlemen. You've really helped me out.
Back when I use to trout fish in WVA, we strictly used wet flies...sometimes 3 at a time and had incredible luck. What are some of you favorite wet flies?

Regards,

King Fisher