Sculpins!

If you fish like me, you often fish river and outlets due to the fact you can wade them and have an easier time reaching the spots that fish hold in with you casts.  In fly fishing this is almost life, when you find yourself fishing a river, you often have to spend time swinging flies.  As far as trout go, many drift nymphs and dry flies.  But this there is a group that like to streamer fish.  Even when the big fish are not around, smaller trout will strike streamers.  The most popular prey of the trout is sculpins.  These tiny fish are perfect food.  They can range from less than an inch to up to six inches.  But trout are not the only fish they eat.  Bass, walleye, and many others eat them.  There is also a common fish called a Darter that is super similar to sculpins.

When hunting trout, walleye, and smallies.  I get out my sculpin flies.  Not all have to be deer hair head or wool headed flies.  I decided to develop two new, simple patterns for hunting trout.  One is nothing more than an intruder fly turned into a sculpin pattern and shrunk down to size.

The second is similar to a wooly bugger.  Both are small and simple.  They will get you a lot of rainbows.   Remember to fish these near the bottm.