Pink Worms?

[Dhise]

another trick is to cut a small section of your pink worm and thread it on your line above a woolly bugger to make an egg sucking leech. you can carry a pink,chartreuse,yellow,red, and orange worm with you and some woollybuggers and be able to fish a whole spectrum of egg sucking leechs
you can also make single eggs out of worms or use them to place a colorful tail on any fly. if you need to get way under that log jam try texas rigging your fly with a small piece of bright colored worm
In the mid-west I've seen fish caught on the 3" mad river white worms

Great ideas.

I''ve also been using this with great success (for trout)

[steelheaderny]

Speaking of egg sucking leeches, my brother has a bunch that he bought from cabalas. They are a single egg with long black hairs on it. Under water it must look mighty appetizing cuz he hit a nice fish with it when we were in a slow spot during one of our days.

[SAGA]

steelheaderny...One of Your days? I think I already own the right for those days, your squatting. I bet the Cabelas egg-sucking leechs OTHERWISE known as "The Managment Special" is a good pattern , but not all that special, there are a few improvments on that basic pattern which most don't go to the bother of incorporating. One fish on a slow day does not a great pattern make, but that being said, it is a great pattern and has been for decades, especially the improved versions.

[steelheaderny]

Saga- The e.s.l I'm talking about is not a fly at all ( I don't think). It's a plastic, realistic looking egg with a bunch of black hairs. I speak of "our days" because my (older) bro and I have re-connected after seeing each other for family and business only for YEARS. We both can't get enough steel, and it's a real gas.-Happy Holidays

[SAGA]

Call it what you will, the commonly recognized ESL still works well. Still not sure about Your Days, I thought I bought them all out.

Happy Hooligans

[steelheaderny]

Saga- Just read your profile. Who ever heard of fishing in Michigan? Are there actual rivers there?

[SAGA]

No one, SHHHHHHHhhhhhhh, theres no rivers here, just puddles and ditches all froze over most of the time, no need to even think about fishing Michigan, stay home and warm

[steelheaderny]

If you were hardcore like me you could see the sun come up on the river tomorrow- CHRISTMAS DAY. I'm sure God understands. 50 degrees saturday. I'll be kicking steelheads' azzes.

[hero]

If you were hardcore like me you could see the sun come up on the river tomorrow- CHRISTMAS DAY. I'm sure God understands. 50 degrees saturday. I'll be kicking steelheads' azzes.

your my new hero...

[SAGA]

Whats this sun thing you speak of? We have heard of this Godless Pagen legend...where a shiney orange thing travels across the sky, but have never seen it. 50 degrees? You do mean on the Kalvin scale Don't you? (300 being room temp) What other fishing luxuries do you have there in NY? I suppose You have rivers too. Sounds like a bunch of fairweather fishing to me.

[steelheaderny]

Fishing Luxuries in New York? How do we have them? Let me count the ways.....First of all, you must come to beautiful Pulaski NY. Pulaski has long been known as the academic, cultural and architectural center of the new world. It is where painters, composers, writers, great scientists et al have come for centuries to be inspired by the wonderful people, classic architecture, myriad arts and entertainment (ballet, opera, symphony, the stage), not to mention the fishing. Awesome restaurants. Immaculate parks. Every conceivable diversion. Our awesome fishery is the one against which all other Great Lakes as well as most Pacific Northwest fisheries are judged. There is not one documented snag on the Salmon river. When you park in a state-run parking lot, park employees wash your car windows as well as check fluid levels. The DEC brings complimentary Saranac Beers and New York grown wines right to the river. There are no state taxes in New York. There is never any litter on the Salmon river. The visitors never leave tons of garbage, beer bottles, wads of hundred pound mono with meat hooks. The actual fishing is always good like yesterday, Christmas Day. I hooked up about 8:00 AM for ten seconds before losing. I cast right back in the same spot ten seconds later and hit what was at least a 15 pound girl. I think she weighed as much as 18- she's the biggest I ever caught or even seen close up. She had what looked like lamprey scars on her head /upper cheek behind eyes. I've never seen lampreys on the head. Is there another way she could get huge, lamprey looking scars on her cheek? She's a dead tie best Christmas present I got with my Gander Mountain Gift certificate from the old lady.

[SAGA]

lighten up on NY, its not all that bad, but I'm sort of biased

[hero]

another trick is to cut a small section of your pink worm and thread it on your line above a woolly bugger to make an egg sucking leech. you can carry a pink,chartreuse,yellow,red, and orange worm with you and some woollybuggers and be able to fish a whole spectrum of egg sucking leechs
you can also make single eggs out of worms or use them to place a colorful tail on any fly. if you need to get way under that log jam try texas rigging your fly with a small piece of bright colored worm
In the mid-west I've seen fish caught on the 3" mad river white worms

Great ideas.

I''ve also been using this with great success (for trout)

Dave, care to share that material?

Thanks

H

[AlwaysWading]

The pink worm is nothing other than a San Juan. They are very simple to tie and you can do them in a variety of colors, beaded, not beaded, etc. I use them mostly for rainbows in the dead of winter until it starts to get warm. Never tied one for steelies but I have no doubt they would work just as well as an egg pattern at certain times of the run.

[SAGA]

As expressed to the Floyd by a record exec "By the way which ones (of the group) Pink?" The groups name comes from a combination of blues players Pink Anderson and Floyd Sessions. I like the look of that tri-Antron stuff for the worms Anglersworkshop has it