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Hihium Lake
my family and i are camping at Loon Lake this weekend. my dad and i wouldn't mind jumping up to Hihium for day of fishing. last time we did this, we did ok by wind drifting red micro leeches, hoking into maybe a half dozen fish in the day. i've only fished the lake twice. any tips or hints for us this year to help our productivity? any flies i should tie for the trip?
sidenote. forget turkey this year. thanksgiving dinner is gonna be grouse! :yeah:
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These two patterns were originally developed at Hihium and still slay fish all over the Interior. The key is to keep 'em sparse. Less is more!Originally Posted by Ruger
what material is used for the hackled and tail? looks like chenille for the body.
Pheasant rump dyed yellow or wine. Chenille is x-fine and the hook is a size 10-6x but I've gone to a size 8-4x for the benefit of a wider gape. Have tried using ultra chenille but the results were negative due to no discernible rib created by the chenille.
good stuff. thanks john.
John
Do you think I could use Ultra Chenille and use a mono rib or copper?
Cool looking flies.
Got to make some for trips home to the Shuswap.
k
"Fishing is much more than fish. Fishing is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers." - Herbert Hoover
Of course there are no stringent guidelines in fly tying so I'll tell you what I've discovered and then you can decide for yourself. I've tried ultra chenille and it just looks too uniform for my liking. I have also tried many different ribbings and I keep going back to no rib.
This is just my opinion so keep that in mind when I tell you that I feel the only good use for ultra chenille is San Juan Worms.
In my first year of experimentation I was fishing a traveller sedge hatch. I would wait for a rise and then throw the olive K-Mart in the vicinity and do nothing. No retrieve, nothing. Tying the pattern sparse makes the hackle splay out when it hits the water and I believe the fish were taking them for emergers. If the pattern had a rib the fish wouldn't touch it.
I just looked up the info on the original, Gils' Monster, developed at Hihium in 1954!
Really finely tied flies, John. Thanks for the info and I certainly agree from experience that "The key is to keep 'em sparse."
I've added that pattern to my Winter bucket list.
Its been years since I went to Loon Lake how is the fishing now?
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