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EXPERIENCE FATAL

ATTRACTION

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Absent an obvious hatch, you want a fly paern that’s buggy enough to earn interest, gaudy enough to cause a reaction strike, or just plain meaty-looking enough that the trout cannot let it float by. You want an aractor. Here are four of the best. Don’t fish without them.

TYING TWEAK

For dirty water, increase the flash with a sparkle-

dubbing body.

Remove the conehead weight for soer presentations

to lake fish.

Mix and match head-dubbing colors to find the

real money mix.

Dab a spot of glow-in-the-dark paint on the head so you can

see it at night.

HOW TOWORK IT

Dead-drift the fly tight to banks. The seductive legs will

do the rest.

Bang the banks, then retrieve the fly with fast, erratic

strips.

Make it the lead fly on a double rig and dead-drift it

through deep runs.

Make short, erratic strips toward the shore, above runs,

and around cover.

WHEN TOFISH IT

Spring through fall, especially

midsummer.

It’s not a fall-only pattern. Fish it

year-round.

Year-round, but it’s most deadly in

spring and summer.

Summer nights when big trout are

on the prowl.

Replicates a range of natural insects, from stoneflies to

caddis to hoppers.

WHY IT WORKS

A brown body gives it crayfish appeal, and the rubber legs

drive trout wild.

It’s a Prince Nymph on steroids with sohackle wing accents

to oscillate in water.

No natural food packs more protein power than mice; a

big meal for big fish.

THEPATTERN

Rubber-Legged Stimulator

Autumn Splendor

Mercer’s Lemming

Twenty Incher