Lower Mt Fork River Fly List

[tarponfly]

Beavers Bend Fly’s

Over the years I have come up with this list.

MAIN FLIES:

Bead Head Pheasant Tails (Size: 14-18)
Hares Ear (Size: 14-18)
Orange Soft Hackles (Size: 16-18)
Red Hackles (Size: 16-18)
Bead Headed Wollybuggers (Colors: Olive, White, Black, Rust) (Size: 10-20, I like Big WB’S)
Black Midges (Size: 12-22)
Red Midges (Size: 12-22)
Blue Winged Olive (Size:16-22)
Sulpher (Size: )
Cahill (Size: 18-22)
San Juan Worm's pink, red, white, peach
Pink Egg
Chartreuse Egg
Peach Egg
Red Egg


January:

Hatches: Baetis, Blue Winged Olive, Light Cahill, Midge
Flies to use: Pheasant tails, Red Fox Squirrel, San Juan worm, Egg Patterns, Griffiths Gnat, Adult Caddis, Emergers


February:

Hatches: Mayflies, Midges, March Brown

Flies to use: March Browns, Bead Headed Black and Red Midges (size 12-14), San Juan worms, egg patterns, Griffiths gnat, CDC, Emerger Patterns, Soft hackle

March:

Hatches: Blue winged Olive, Midges

Wet Flies to use:
Soft Hackle, Copper Johns, Pheasant Tails, Egg patterns, Red Fox squirrels, crane fly

Dry Flies to use: Griffiths Gnats, Hares Ears, March Brown (mayfly), Blue Winged Olive (mayfly)

Flies to use: Elk Hair Caddis, Parachute Adams, Thread Midges, and Caddis Pupae Flies, Soft Hackles, Midges, Hares ears, Pheasant tails, Prince nymphs


April:

Hatchs: Flying Ants, Caddis, Mayflies, Crane flies, Midges

Flies to use: Red Soft Hackle, Elk Hair Caddis, Midges, Ants,

May:

Hatches: Baetis, Beetles ,Blue Winged Olive, Brown Caddis, March Brown ,Tan Caddis

Wet flies (nymphs) to use: Cream Colored Soft Hackles, Nymphs, Adam Parachutes 12-16, Hare's ear Nymphs, Elk hair caddis

Dry flies to use: CDC Caddis and CDC Mayfly Emergers, EHC, Adam Parachutes


June:

Hatches: Mayfly, PMD's, Sulphurs
Flies to use: Grasshoppers, Ants, Midges, Mayflies, Caddis

July:

Hatches: Mayflies, Midges
Flies to use: Copper Johns, Griffiths Gnats, EHC, Ants, Griffiths Gnats, Soft Hackles, Hoppers, Soft Hackles, Hoppers

August:

Hatches: Midge, Hexagenia, Caddis, Mayflies, Mosquitoes
Dry Flies: Caddis and Mayflies (including dry, emergers, and cripples)
Flies to use: Soft Hackles, Midges, Pheasant Tails, Copper Johns, Small Mayfly Imitations, Caddis Pupae, Emergers, Hoppers



September:

Hatches: PMD/s, BWO's Yellow Sally, Grass Hoppers and Katy-Dids, Hexagenia Mayflies

Wet flies (nymphs) to use: Green Bead Head Caddis Nymph imitations in about size 14-16, Egg patterns, San Juan Worm, Various Soft Hackles, Light Cahill, Grasshopper, Ant, Hex Nymph, Hoppers

Dry flies to use: Stimulators on a size 10 hook, Elk hair Caddis, Hex

October:

Hatches: Caddis, Grey Mayflies, Blue Quills Blue Winged Olives Midges, Sulfurs
Flies to use: Miracle Midge, Zebra Midge, Egg Patterns, San Juan Worm, Pink Eggs

November:

Hatches: Small Tan Caddis, Small Black Caddis, Midges, Blue Wings
Flies to use: Thread Midges, Caddis Emergers, spiders, Copper John, Egg Patterns, San Juan Worms

December:
Hatches: Black Caddis, Blue Winged Olives (mayfly) and Midges.
Flies to use: Emergers, Caddis, Mayfly, Midges, Egg patterns -pink mainly.
Dry flies to use: Griffiths Gnat, Blue Winged Olive, Black Caddis

[bigc]

Great list, thank you!
On the Sulphurs you did not list a size. Mine usually runs 18-28

[jonbo]

Here's the sulphur emerger soft-hackle I tied this week. It's supposed to be a sulphur adult trying to emerge from its shuck. I tied the rear end in pheasant tail that I reinforced or ribbed with a piece of 6x mono. The rest of the body is camel. The hackle is partridge. It's on a size 14 hook. Is that too big? I was in a sulphur (cahill?) hatch a couple of weeks ago. The adults were about an 18, but I think I saw a larva rise. It was a little larger, about a 14. It was neat to see because I also got to see a trout intercept it as it reached the surface. This is supposed to be an adult trying to emerge from its shuck.

I get a lot of my ideas from googling something like "sulphur emerger". Then you can select one of the first selections which will be "images". It gives you a thousand pictures of tied flies and usually several photos of the actual bug.

Cheers,

jonbo

[chrisb]

What a post. You just saved me countless hours of journal entries. Thanks.

[bigc]

This one was great for me everyday for the past 12 days, in a size 20-24

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[bigc]

This worked very well for me. Spent 12 days fishing the water, got back Monday.
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[jonbo]

Hi 'yall. I've been trying to add a picture here, but the interface won't cooperate. I don't know if it's here or not. I added the attachment, it's of a fly I've tied, but then when I went to type in text, the picture disappeared and I don't know where it is now or how to get it back. I hope it shows up when I post this. Anyway, it's the same picture I posted a couple of posts up. It's a soft hackle with a brown body and cream thorax. It's meant to be an emerger. It's tied in a size 14. I'm wondering if it will suffice as a march brown emerger at the LMF. My wife's calling me for dinner. I have to go. Thanks a lot, everyone.

Jonbo

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[BTLowry]

Thanks

[kingnothing]

bump

[BTLowry]

Bump in case anyone else needs a refresher

[chrisb]

Jan 27, 2014 20:03:25 GMT -6 bigc said:

This one was great for me everyday for the past 12 days, in a size 20-24

That is a nice pattern.  Did you tie that or buy it somewhere?

[madison]

Great list! I printed it and have it in my bag of tricks as a base line after turning over rocks fails to produce a clear choice. It is also handy to use as an inventory sheet / shopping or tying list!
I plan on being on the water 2/28/20!

[darrelln09]

Feb 25, 2020 14:27:24 GMT -6 chrisb said:

Jan 27, 2014 20:03:25 GMT -6 bigc said:

This one was great for me everyday for the past 12 days, in a size 20-24

That is a nice pattern.  Did you tie that or buy it somewhere?

You might not get an answer to that six-year-old post!

[darrelln09]

Feb 26, 2020 16:42:53 GMT -6 madison said:

Great list! I printed it and have it in my bag of tricks as a base line after turning over rocks fails to produce a clear choice. It is also handy to use as an inventory sheet / shopping or tying list!
I plan on being on the water 2/28/20!

Here’s a link to another hatch chart that’s been around for a while as well:

beaversbendflyshop.proboards.com/post/10729