Salmon fly choice
clint from toronto writes:
Hi Bill, after reading some of your suggestions I believe You the man.my question is, do you fine the salmon hit a big fly more often than they do eggs?
Bill replies:
Hi ClintThanks for the compliment. I have been fishing salmon for about 30 years and have some definite ideas on fly choice. Water conditions dictate what fly I will use. If I have colored water right after a rain my choice of fly would be a spey fly, large egg sucking leech or large stone fly. My color choice would be black first as that color will give a profile in any color of water. I would also try bright colors at this time. As the water clears my selection would be smaller flies with lighter tippets. I would then use egg patterns that would include chartreuse, fluorescent orange etc.. When the water is low and very clear I use exclusively egg patterns but in white, yellow and cheese color.
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Bill Spicer
Bill has been fishing for more than 35 years. He discovered fly-fishing 20 years ago and has never looked back. Bill is now an accomplished fly tier, author, guide, lecturer, and teacher and is an FFF Certified Master Fly Casting Instructor.
Bill is a regular writing contributor to The Canadian Fly Fisher Magazine with his casting articles.
Bill is co-host of The New Fly Fisher television show and owner of Ontario School of Fly Fishing and is known as the teacher's teacher. Bill is a passionate angler and a fixture on most area streams and symposiums, lecturing and at tying tables. Bill has a great love for casting and would sometimes rather teach than fish. His love is stalking trout in cold water streams of southern Ontario and eastern United States, but his specialty is migratory steelhead and salmon.
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