Other people's fly of the week!

A bit about flies that are not mine, but you still need to know about them!

 

Sasquatch!  Out in Utah there is a fly fisherman who has been hunting monsters.  His name is Nick Granato.  In winter and fall he hunts browns, in summer and spring he chases tiger Muskie.  A long time ago he thought about how he wanted a fly that pushed water, worked for both cold water and warm water fish, and had movement.  Unlike most fishermen, it seems, he felt that movement was key in his flies.  This may be due to the fact that he was once a gear chucker, but learned about fly fishing and was then soon sick of nymphing.  After years of chasing things that kill, he decided that he needed a fly that was not out there.  Deer hair headed flies with dumbbell eyes tend to sink to slow and ride upward in current.  Plus most articulated flies, with two hooks, get in each other’s way when fishing for warm water fish, but as I know, single hook flies get a lot of short strikes on trout, so you have to find the magic amount of hook length.  He, like me, decided that he need razor sharp hooks.  The best freshwater hook out there for fly fisherman is a Gamakatsu b10s stinger.  It’s just the sharpest you can find.  I fell in love with this fly the first time I saw it on Nick’s Blog, “Fly Obsession”.  I got largemouth here, in the mid-south, almost instantly on these flies.  Later I would land my first fly caught Brown Trout out of Lake Michigan.  These flies are just the best.  Their craft fur head allows them to sink faster and stay deeper.  From Muskies and Kings Salmon, all the way to tarpon and Brown trout, this fly will work.  I’m currently working on a tube fly version for Gar.  If you need one streamer to take anywhere, take one of these.  Soon I’ll be throwing them at Lingcod out west!