Re: Well I Never
Too funny... its amazing how we both arrived at pink/chartreuse. I'm not much of a fly fisher, though I do enjoy teaching Scouts how to do it. I was with a veritable "who's who" of fly fishing on a tiny mountain lake in NC while we were taking a break from our meeting (National Committee for Fly Fishing). Everyone was pulling in and releasing trout except for the Florida boy. Same fly (a gnat), same water but my presentation was completely different and I was having a hard time catching on. I took a breath and tied on one of my "grass shrimp" patterns and all of a sudden I was pulling in fish and not just trout. I use that color pattern almost exclusively now no matter where I fish. I have caught tarpon, snook, trout, large mouth bass, Sunnies, Crappie, a sturgeon, catfish and even a bonnet head shark! I'm sure that I have forgotten some. It has been productive from fast water in Oklahoma to the mangrove shallows found here in the Keys. I vary the size of the hook and fly, but the colors and the woolly bugger design remain constant. My best was a small area below the dam at a Boy Scout Camp in Western Virginia where I caught 103 fish in about 3 hours. Half were keepers, but I released them all.
It's a 2" plastic curly tail grub on a custom painted 1/16 oz jig head. It's a minnow head jig head that I painted glow pink on one side and glow chartreuse on the other to match the grub.
I'll post a pic later.
