Reply To: Only Six Flies for the Spring

1 Olive Wooly bugger The first one that I bought before hooking up with FATC was from Darrel Bentley He ran the fly shop for a while at Reed’s Cabins. He told me “toss it out and let it drift and slowly retieve it in. Pay attention as right before you lift it out of the water out of nowhere a trout wil often grab it”. He is right and that has happened so many times where I just take a second or 2 longer before lifting it from the water and will often catch a trout. We owe a lot of the good fishing to Darrel because he was the “game warden” at Montauk before he retired and tried to get a fly shop going at Reeds Cabins. FYI He was a Vietnam Veteran and his body is buried in the Cemetery as you leave the park and his wife Bonnie works at the park and if you ever call down there to make camping reservations you will probably speak to her.

2 Yellow Sally Dry fly fishing is the the best and they can be big so even me with my poor eyesight can see the trout swim up and grab them and when you hear “gulp” set the hook!

3 San Juan worm under a bobber (sory Kenny I know they are called strike indicators!)

4 p&P

5 Red Worm

6 Black Wooly Bugger

My favorite flies were really the ones in my Dad’s fly box, but they were mostly popping bugs that he used on ponds for bluegills! I never got the hang of it so he bought me live crickets and we always caught fish!