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Old 07-08-2009, 05:51 AM   #1
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Default The Low and Clear - favorite steelhead fly?
when the water is super low and super clear and the fish are spooky... what's your (or the steelhead's) favorite fly?

feel free to name a swingin fly and a nymphin fly

if you say globug - that's fine, but i wanna know exactly what color
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Old 07-08-2009, 08:06 AM   #2
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Chartreuse Bomber

Not many thing are more aggressive than a steelhead that is backed in a corner by low water. You combine that with nooks pushing them around, and crazy things happen
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Old 07-08-2009, 11:25 AM   #3
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#8 Brown Wooley Worm for swinging or nymphing.

#10 Blue or Green Copper John for nymphing
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Old 07-09-2009, 08:32 PM   #4
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136 views and two replies??? c'mon dudes
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Old 07-09-2009, 08:47 PM   #5
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Night Crawler strung strait,no weight,barbless.
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Old 07-09-2009, 09:35 PM   #6
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Night Crawler strung strait,no weight,barbless.
OOPS,wrong thread
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Old 07-09-2009, 09:50 PM   #7
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OOPS,wrong thread

heh, i was gonna say, that's a pretty life like fly your using there
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Old 07-10-2009, 05:30 AM   #8
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Size 2 Ugly Bug, black with an orange butt. Fished on the dead drift.
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Old 07-10-2009, 05:54 AM   #9
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I tie a # 6 or 8 green or olive cadis larve with a red or orange butt...weighted with lead thread
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