First Fly that you tied and Caught a Fish With
- Thread starter N. Metz
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Bivisible. A trout. Followed closely by the wooley worm.
Split shot crimped to a sz 8 baitholder for a rolly polly imitation for trout and silvers in thornton creek. Once we knew they would eat something besides worms and pautzkes we cooked up some carey specials with a friends dads unused cheap kit, and no longer had to keep many.
Since I started tying 66 years ago at the age of 8, quarry was likely a Brookie in a beaver pond in the upper Big Hole Valley. The fly was undoubtedly misshapen, ugly and featured a gigantic head . . . .
I used to have the terrible habit of tying over the eye. Thank god fish will still eat an ugly fly.
My first fly that I had tied that caught a fish was when I was 11. Had been trying to fly fish for a year or so (knew no one that fly fished) and had read about fly tying. My aunt raised chickens and I had gleaned some loose feathers including some from a bantam rooster. In my clumsy way wrapped one feather along the shank with another in front of the first. It was on number #14 hook and somehow managed to fool a cutthroat trout on the South Fork of the Snoqualmie. The fly was so poorly tied that it can apart as I unhooked the trout. As my tying improved for the next decade that initial success the "pattern" became a staple in my chasing of the Snoqualmie forks cutthroat!
I caught rainbow trout with Carey's Special with a fly rod.....but....they were trolled.
My most memorable "first" fish was a cutthroat caught on a fly I simply dubbed the shank with seal's fur...it was the first fish I caught casting from shore; casting and retrieving on my own...not trolled!
My most memorable "first" fish was a cutthroat caught on a fly I simply dubbed the shank with seal's fur...it was the first fish I caught casting from shore; casting and retrieving on my own...not trolled!
Zak
Legend
My first flies were completely made up, but they caught some fish. The first fly "from a recipie" that I learned to tie was a black wooly bugger with a gold bead head. The second was a partridge and pheasant tail soft hackle wet fly with a green thorax. Those are still confidence flies for me. I was fishing Vermont rivers with browns and rainbows in them and Vermont streams with brookies.
kerrys
Ignored Member
To long ago to remember. First fish on a fly was a rainbow from the Rogue River. I was l around ten years old. I doubt the fly was home tied. My dad fly fished and gear fished. He didn’t tie flies so my guess is our flies were store bought. My dad didn’t think of fly fishing and gear fishing as different. Both were just fishing.
The first fish I caught on a fly I tied was likely a planted rainbow and the fly was probably a wooly bugger. Again long time ago.
The first fish I caught on a fly I tied was likely a planted rainbow and the fly was probably a wooly bugger. Again long time ago.
RCF
Life of the Party
I seem to catch more fish once they get tattered and ugly...
#14 PTN, fishing for rainbows in the Elwha.
Black woolly bugger got a trout in eastern Washington lake. It was quite a thrill, still is!
