Chaunigan Fishing

Hello Everyone

Here are even more of my favourite flies to use at Chaunigan.

Dragonfly Nymph:

- This nymph can be fished year round. Most interior Dragonflies are 'Darners' of the family Aeshnidae preferring the cover of weed beds.

- Usually the fly imitation is fished on or near the lake bottom. The retrieve can be still, or an inching motion to represent the nymph crawling, or short to moderate pulls to represent the dragonfly using it's jet propulsion system to escape the predatory fish.

- A sinking line or weighted flies with a dry line both seem to work.

- I have had quite a lot of success with the Peacock Dragon fly nymph. Really any nymph with light to dark green colour. Also I try to get patterns with the large eyes it has seemed to work good for me.

Tom Thumb (dry fly):

- One of the most popular dry flies throughout B.C. it is a very versatile and successful pattern to use.

- can represent a variety of insects including chironomids, caddis flies, and sedge flies along with others.

- You can fish this pattern to represent traveling sedges. Retrieve the fly in short sharp bursts. Often large trout will "slash" or "roll" over the fly trying to stop its movement. It takes a great deal of patience not to strike at the first sign of the fish. Often this "slash" or "roll" precedes a second attempt from the fish.

- Another way is to troll them on a dry line. Troll them on a dry line with lots of line out. I will usually do this moving to my next spot to cast.

Stay tuned for next blog and will cover a few more dry flies I like to use.