[northcountryman]

Hello all;

This question is related to my first post, the Adirondack Brook Trout slectivity thing: when I was fishing, I noticed several of what I thought were dragonflies flying around the river. They were quite large (about 2-3 inches long including the wings)and had a very bright steely blue-colored body. Several were in pairs and appeared to be mating. One pair actually got too close to the water and a Brook Trout rose up and took one of them. Never saw anything like that before and probably won't again but it was cool to watch. I was just thinking that a dry fly and/or nymph pattern for a dragonfly (I'm not sure about this, it might also have been a damselfly)might be effective. Anybody know of any patterns that would or might work?

Thanks,

Northcountryman

[tele-caster]

one of my most memorable fishing experiences was while fishing a small private trout pond with a buddy ... while he was an ok spin fisherman, he never held a flyrod before, but i convinced him to try ... after maybe an hour i picked up a fish here or there, and pretty much let him get the feel of his strange new gear before really getting serious about actually catching anything ...

we were standing on the shoreline about 10 yards from one another when an enormous rainbow trout cleared the water right between us, and caught a damselfly in midair ... it may have leapt 10" above the surface, but it may as well have pole vaulted from our perspective ... you NEVER saw someone learn to flycast so fast in your life, after that!

tele.

[woger]

Extended foam bodies would be a good method for tying large imitations. They're not difficult (although they can be bulky tying to the hook), try a you tube search

[upinjewett]

I use them in local ponds/lakes. Your all right, the takes do seem aggresive when they happen -

[tele-caster]

any DF patterns i've either bought or tied, have 3 problems ... they don't float / present well, they're not very durable, and they twist tippet horribly ... i suspect a foam body with synthetic wings ( rubberband or film ) might help some of these problems ... but, i haven't learned to tie much using foam or plastic ... tele.

[woger]

tele-caster, on 29 July 2010 - 12:21 PM, said:

any DF patterns i've either bought or tied, have 3 problems ... they don't float / present well, they're not very durable, and they twist tippet horribly ... i suspect a foam body with synthetic wings ( rubberband or film ) might help some of these problems ... but, i haven't learned to tie much using foam or plastic ... tele.

Foam tying is easy, basically folding a piece of foam around a needle and binding it with thread. There's a popular mayfly pattern called the mohican mayfly which is tied with foam.