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.
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...
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.
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...
