Large Flies for Large Trout
Are you get tired of catching average trout when fly fishing? Do you want to catch that trophy rainbow trout or brown trout? Then you need to try fishing with large fly fishing flies. You will not catch as many trout but you might just catch that trophy rainbow trout or brown trout that you dream of.
For trout to grow to a large size, they learn to sit in calmer water and take larger food. A large trout can actually expend more energy attempting to feed on small trout dry flies and nymph flies then it will gain. Large trout have learned to be great opportunists. By sitting in the deeper holes and slower water they expend very little energy and can much more easily take a larger meal.
Several years ago a friend and I went to Montana fly fishing. After a few days of great fly fishing on the Beaverhead and Big Hole rivers, Terry asked out guide to tie some large crayfish flies. The next day I was catching several nice twelve to eighteen inch trout while Terry was catching nothing. About the time I was thinking his idea was not so great he hooked a very large trout. After about a thirty minute struggle with the large fish, he landed a brown trout that measured twenty seven inches and weighed over five pounds. Our guide who had been guiding for over twenty years on the Montana Rivers said it was the largest trout he had ever seen caught. The trout was caught on the large crayfish that were close to four inches long.
From that day on I have often used larger flies with some great results. When I go trout fishing now I always carry several large crayfish flies, woolly buggers, woolly worms, and hand tied imitations of frogs, tadpoles and even small mouse flies. Large size wet flies will also take larger trout. I tie several of these myself but you can find many of these by shopping for bass fishing flies.
Also try large trout flies when you are fly fishing on ponds and lakes for trout. I am not sure why, but trout in ponds and lakes are accustom to feeding on larger prey.
Please catch and release,
Brian
Tags: bass fishing flies, brown trout, fly fishing, nymph flies, rainbow trout, trout dry flies, woolly buggers, woolly worms
