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best flies to use when fly fishing yosemite?

Yeah well i am gonna be going to yosemite in a few weeks but i have no idea what are the best flies to buy. Please if anyone can list the most productive flies that u have used at yosemite. Also if you can list the names of the flies and the size of the flies. -Thanks

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  1. my favorite is the blue winged olive and the mesquito. also what works well is if you take a mesquito fly and put a salmon egg on it. ive caught so many fish doing that. i normaly have better luck with smaller flies rather than the larger ones. black ants sometimes work to. but try the salmon eggs first. its alot fun. good luck
  2. bead head prince
  3. Hey Michael! Do you know where you'll be fishing...Tuolumne? Merced? Other? You won't find selectivity to be a troublesome issue in the park, especially during the height of summer. Expect hatch activity to be very limited in variety and duration. My suggestion to you would be to mostly stick to attractor patterns and general (non-hatch specific) patterns. I'll list DRIES first, because takes on the surface are a blast...and you should find enough fish searching for food at the surface this time of year. 1. Humpies: Various colors, standard or "royal" 14-18 2. Trudes: Lime, Yellow, Royal, Black 12-16 3. Parachutes: Adams, Hare's Ear, 14-18 4. Goddard Caddis 14-16 5. Elk Hair Caddis 14-18 6. Henryville (downwing caddis imitation) 14-16 7. Hemingway Caddis 14-18 8. Ants: Black, Cinnamon, Flying 14-16 9. Stimulator: Tan or any other 12-16 10. "Catskill" Style Ties (if you like): Adams, PMD, Red Quill, etc. Now for some NYMPHS: 1. Prince: Standard or Beadhead 12-16 2. Pheasant Tail: Std, BH, or Flashback 14-18 3. Bird's Nest: Natural 12-14 4. Copper John: Natural, Red, Green, etc.. 12-16 5. Fox's Poopah 6. Dark Lord 12-16 7. Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear: 12-16 8. Red Fox Squirrel Nymph 12-14 9. LaFontaine Caddis Larva 14-16 10. Puyans' AP Nymph: Black, Peacock 12-16 While there are certainly others I might recommend, I believe you'd do quite fine by selecting from those listed. Sizes are suggestions only...you don't need to carry more than one or two sizes of any one pattern. I would also bring a few basic emergers with you. The Quigley Cripple and the Klinhamer Special will ride in the surface film and suggest emerging mayflies and caddisflies respectively. "Soft Hackles" would also fish well. As I mentioned, hatch activity will be sparse and intermittent. Besides caddis, about the only reliable hatch you'll find this time of year will be PMDs. Having some nymphs, parachutes, emergers, and/or spinners imitative of PMDs could be beneficial. I did leave out streamers of any type (including Buggers) as I don't think this style of fishing is necessary (or fun) this time of year, and it distracts from the pleasure of trout fishing with a lighter rod.
  4. First off, e.b, great answer, i would also advise using dries at this time of year its what most trout will be taking,although on the hotter days the trout often will not be taking dries and instead you should switch to nymphs, try scud type patterns fished Czech nymph style for trout in fast flowing rivers, the pheasant tail, works great almost all year round, fished slowly, also the hares ear nymph with a gold bead head works very well, i like to add a small amount of Krystal flash to the tail fibers for the best results. The dries listed to you above are some of my go-to flies, but i would also like to add parachute flies in about size 12-14 work very well, they will stay afloat when most other dries wont and they are easy to spot takes due to the bright post, the next flies i suggest is either the hackled floss ant fly tied on a size 12 dry hook or the newer foam backed ant on either a 12 or 14 and depending on the fish even a size 10, if you fish the dries use a co-polymer leader that has been de-greased about a ft away from the dry, add plenty of floatant to your dries, loon aquel and gink work very well, if you want to use CDC flies then use loon floatant because gink will damage the hackle of CDC flies. For the nymphs fish them on a fluorocarbon leader, airflo g3 is a great leader material. http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/index/index-display.jsp?id=cat600029&navAction=jump&navCount=1&cmCat=MainCatcat20431&parentType=category&parentId=cat20431 Fish your nymphs on a floating line with an indicator. Info on patterns http://www.virtualflybox.com/ If youre unsure of the river fish the smaller still pools, approach them slowly, to prevent spooking the fish. A tapered leader will help you get a better presentation of your dry flies.
  5. There are probably not going to be any hatch , so maybe more important than specific flies would be a subtle presentation with a tapered line ending in a very small terminal line. Easier said than done but I DO believe anything in the Valley will be more about presentation than styles of flies. Make sure to follow local laws and have fun
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