LakeStream Studio Blog
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Tying Tutorial for the Midnight Reaper VERSION 2.0 Night Fishing Fly
The previous version of this fly was tied using 1/16 oz jig hooks. Although it caught lots of fish, this heavier version was difficult to fish over weed beds and shallow bays because of its fast sink rate. By tying various weights of cone heads to un-weighted jig hooks, we can now swim the Reaper slowly over these aquatic zones without it sinking too fast.
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PROJECT FLY Tutorial: The Midnight Reaper - A Night-Fishing Fly
First of all, most trout fishermen don’t fish in the dark, so this is not the type of fly typically found in fly shop bins or even online. This fly has never seen the light of day on any body of water – not that it can’t be fished during the day, it’s just that I’ve only fished it at night! This fly is big, black, ugly, noisy and looks like an unkempt Woolly Bugger on steroids. -
The Last Chance Leech: The Evolution of a Project Fly
It began one morning at sunrise in 2016 on Utah’s Strawberry reservoir. I was fishing a woolly bugger around the inlets of Chicken Creek West and not one fish had even bumped my fly during the first hour or so on the water. Baffled by the lack of interest in this normally hot Strawberry fly, I decided to change to a new leech pattern I had been experimenting with to see if it would interest these seemingly dormant trout...