Patterns that target Sea Run Cutthroat (Salt Water)

[earlsmith]

Can those of you who fish SRC's please share pattern names and pictures or links to the patterns?? I have the opportunity to target the species, and have never fished to them in the Salt. Muddlers, Streamers, Clousers ect. and favorite ways to fish them, I have sinking and floating spools....Thank You =)

[Steve Rohrbach]

My best recommendation is to buy Les Johnson's latest book, Fly Fishing Coastal Cutthroat Trout. This book offers great insight into the fish, their habitat, has an incredible selection of flies and will save you lots of energy researching other sources. You can also cut the learning curve by doing a search on this website for Sea Run Cutthroats, Beach Fishing, etc. Good luck, Steve

[Jim Fitz]

Ditto what Steve says. The book has a lot of different color photos of different patterns but page 116 has a picture of SRC fisherman's fly box.;)

Book is a good read an full of info.

[D3Smartie]

patterns for SRCs matter very little... some flashy baitfish patterns, a few poppers/sliders and maybe some shrimp patterns.
If you are in the fish, it will not matter... they are an agressive fish that will opportunistically eat almost anything presented to them.
I fish a popper or krystal flash baitfish 90% of the time. surf candy, or any type of epoxy head minnow wound make up the other 10%