what is the best fly for stockies?

[silverado mike]

heading out to trick a stockie or two tomorrow with the flyrod.

any suggestions?

[featherbaiter]

I know that this sounds stupid, but I have aken a muddler minnow and cut off everything except the spun deer head. Looks a lot like a pellet. Works great.

[Trapper]

I have done well in the past with wooly buggers in Black,Brown or Olive fished slowly.

[teflon_jones]

I always try and use something with some flash and/or bright color, preferably red.

My top pick would probably be a small bead head sparkle bugger.

[ssully]

A gold bead headed pheasant tail nymph.

or.. a pellet fly. :-)

[Brad G.]

I like the Rat Faced McDougal with every thing but the little brown deer hair cut off. Just like above on the Muddler...the The Rat Faced McPellet Fly...

[Punchshot]

black woolly bugger, caught 7 rainbows and 3 brookies @ little pond last week in acouple hours

[albacized]

I'll second (or third, forth whatever) the wooly bugger choice. I happen to like the olive beadhead variety. However, I think as long as you fish whatever you choose with confidence, you should do ok.

[capemike88]

Size 10 Olive Wooly bugger. Least in the Cape ponds, its rediculous, hairs ears also work well.

Mike

[Paul Cheever]

Cigerette filter fly,as far back as I can remember just about every stocked trout I've caught and kept had a stomach full of butt filters.

[Thunder Rod]

Hey Mike,

I was going to say cig butt too.

But another thing you find in their bellies a lot is the twister-ends of a rubber worm. They can't digest them things and end up getting skinny...

Hey Punchshot, was that you at Little Pond fishing the clear float and wholly bugger in waders from the boat launch last Thurs afternoon? I parked and walked around the trail and tried that same rig for a while, (after spinners didn't produce) but ended up catching my only brown trout on a yellow feather-jig.

[Punchshot]

No Thunder it wasen't me, I fish out of a 12' yak. The day I was there, there was a guy in a float tube who was catching them on every cast. I yelled over to him " they like what your throwing them ", and his reply was " It's no big secret ". I guess he wasnted to keep it to him self, though I did pretty good

[joebe]

Did pretty well there Sunday with Black Wooly Buggers Deep and slowwwwwwww

[ANeary]

I agree with the Wooly Buggers but I like white. It's bright I can see it in a lot of streams and since I can see it I know when to let it drop into a hole or or twitch it in front of a rock etc. Landed a nice 18inch rainbow last week. Watched the fish chase it a couple times then I dead drifted it right by it and it enhaled it. Of course I do fish olive and black as well, but I really like to see the fly if posssble.

[Tie-Dye-Fly-Guy]

got these lil cadis imitations with small tungsten head. #18 with green floss body, peacock herl back and collar. looks close enough to small natural or pellet for that matter. been slayin em up at the trout club, even fooled a few hold overs. can fish it deep and slow or hot within a foot of the surface. love ringin em in with the sage 0-0 when others gots there nose in the flybox wondering what the hell.

[beachfarm]

A gold ribbed hares ear. It's the universal nymph... that just happens to look like a pellet. :brow