Pass Lake flies?? [Archive] - Washington Fly Fishing

flytyerboy95

11-13-2007, 06:55 PM

i was just wondering what you guys thought is the best fly on pass lake. i know chronies work but what else .and is there anything special for browns that works good?:confused:
thanks
flytyerboy95 :thumb:

Swandazi

11-13-2007, 06:57 PM

Use streamers, such as large muddlers and bunny leachs.

jcalderon

11-13-2007, 07:59 PM

the only fly you need on pass is a white wooley bugger... sleep in, get there late, and cast it to the banks...... hold on tight.... big browns are coming.... and yes, use a floating like so you can watch and enjoy

Blake Stiller

11-13-2007, 08:11 PM

chronies havent been working lately. Its been a while since ive caught anything fishing one with an indicator. If i could figure out why my pics wont show up, i would post up a fly that i just tied up the other day and absolutely slayed them on on sunday. But basically its a #8 with a sparkly body, white rabbit strip, flashy stringy stuff and silver dumbbell eyes. Casted into the bank and stripped like a bat outta hell and they just slam it. If im not fishing that way, its sinking line and slow stripping a leech/wooly booger on the bottom which also works very well. Its just getting the color right.

barbless

11-13-2007, 08:13 PM

Use streamers, such as large muddlers and bunny leachs.

Uh huh. Big flies = big fish. Big streamers in the dark of night gets em. Big trouts get big by eating at night. Did I mention big flies that push lots of water around?

Ford_Fenders

11-14-2007, 12:30 AM

Shoud be at its absolute peak right now so throw whatever the hell you have. November characteristics at Pass include widespread location of fish and all-day activity. Try to go mid-week unless you really enjoy bumper cars.

seatownbrock

11-14-2007, 09:20 AM

I USE A TRILOGY, TIMES NEW ROMAN, SIZE 7 AT PASS LAKE ON MY IPHONE

ok... I will stop now... :rofl:

Evan Burck

11-14-2007, 12:46 PM

with my experience, it's been less what fly, and more what color i used. anything in olive, and anything in white.

Wayne Jordan

11-14-2007, 12:53 PM

Mickey Finns, JJ Buggers and Thunder Creek Minnows are a few of my winter favorites...

Rory McMahon

11-14-2007, 06:17 PM

streamers are best right now, cast up against shore, then strip the line erratically, the browns are up shallow feeding on fathead minnows, so anything that roughly imiates fathead minnows will be successful.

sprintcar13

11-14-2007, 10:12 PM

I dont know if anyone else has had success with this but i was there about 2 months ago and used a size 16 adams dry casting towards shore and got 5 bows 20-27 in. My friend caught a big brown on a olive bunny leach. Good Luck!

Scott Keith

11-15-2007, 08:18 AM

I love dry fly fishing at pass... I've had the same experience sprintcar13. I like casting a smallish dry to either fish circling the top or blind to holding areas.

Scott

Kyle Smith

11-16-2007, 03:45 AM

I don't think I saw it yet in this thread, so I'll add the Carey Special. At least I've heard it's good there.

Ryan Francis

11-20-2007, 02:21 PM

I AM A HARDCORE CHRONOMID FISHERMAN, HOWEVER, EARLIER THIS
FALL I WAS TURNED ON TO FISHING SMALL MINI LEACHES W/ A FULL
SINK LINE, I HAD SOME GREAT DAYS BEFORE I MOVED TO MONTANA

Porter

11-20-2007, 03:38 PM

Olive and/or olive/black leeches on a floater with long leader 12' any time :thumb:

White Gnats 16-18 (evening on summer nights) :thumb:

Adams size 12-16 summer/early fall morning and evening :thumb:

bobber fishing :(

Start with leeches in olive and/or black (or combo color) .....get that rod bent a few times and warmed up for some dry fly casting :) ;)

:beer2::beer2:ptyd

Blake Stiller

11-23-2007, 02:31 PM

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uncledave

12-15-2007, 11:51 AM

its green driftboat boy, pass is always good to me. smile cause i caught another one

Zane Wyll

12-15-2007, 04:44 PM

uncledave welcome aboard you are the pass lake king. nice to see ya on the board.

zane

Ryan Francis

12-15-2007, 05:00 PM

YOU GUYS SHOULD ALL BOW TO UNCLEDAVE, HE IS THE MAN WHEN IT
COMES TO PASS LAKE......OR ANY LAKE FOR THAT MATTER

Blake Stiller

12-15-2007, 08:34 PM

YOU GUYS SHOULD ALL BOW TO UNCLEDAVE, HE IS THE MAN WHEN IT
COMES TO PASS LAKE......OR ANY LAKE FOR THAT MATTER

Im the new sheriff in town ryan. The crown has been passed on, no pun intended.

uncledave

12-17-2007, 08:04 AM

blake is full of fishcrap

Ryan Francis

12-17-2007, 10:01 AM

BLAKE YOU REMIND ME OF THE SHERRIFF FROM BLAZING SADDLES

uncledave

12-17-2007, 12:09 PM

Blake your friends all agree, you are a legend in your own mind

Blake Stiller

12-17-2007, 02:03 PM

legend or not, i'll still outfish you ;)

flytyerboy95

03-09-2008, 07:44 PM

wow ok very off subject ??????

chadk

03-09-2008, 08:20 PM

wow ok very off date ????

Old Man

03-10-2008, 06:52 AM

No matter what you use at that lake. If you have confidence in the fly it will work for you. It's like going to another state an asking what works here in the way of flies.

I have found out that what I used in Washington works here in Montana. You just have to go to smaller flies. But they are the same fly.

Jim

fishinmusician

03-10-2008, 06:15 PM

Best fishing I ever remember at Pass Lake was fishing flying ants in the fall. This was years ago but I'll bet it still happens. I recall using a red humpy the first day I was there during the "hatch" then tying some flies that were a better match. This event was localized at the far end of the lake from the launch. Has anyone else run into this. Jeff

Broderick Smith

03-13-2008, 10:40 PM

uncledave

03-14-2008, 06:57 AM

bloodworm fished static at 8 to 10 feet.

Islander

03-14-2008, 08:26 AM

This thread rose from the dead...

I'm heading over to Pass Lake on Sunday for the 1st time to float around and fish...looking forward to this one.

Recommendations on flies? Can I successfully fish a streamer with floating line this time of year or does someone have a better set-up for a March weekend?

I think you would be better off with a sink-tip. The fish are really hitting chrono's and blood worms right now near the bottom. If you have any weighted leech patterns I would fish those as well. There have been some reports of fish on the surface this week though, so give it a try. If nothing hits, go deeper.

chadk

03-14-2008, 08:33 AM

Yeah, they was some surface activity when I was there Wed afternoon\evening. But not much to get excited about.

We did best on size 14 to 18 green chironomids. Didn't get to mix things up to figure out the best depth, retreive (or lack of), etc. I was with my boys, and we got a few just watching indicators with flies 6 to 10ft down.

Blake Stiller

03-14-2008, 09:47 PM

I was there last weekend in the afternoon and i only caught two but there was a boat next to me with an elderly couple in it and in the two hours or so i was there fishing i saw them each bring atleast 15 to hand and the same amount or more of missed takes. They were fishing something under and indicator, a dual fly setup, as was i, but i couldnt seem to figure out the right color and or depth. I was using a small black chironomid with a blood worm dropper and caught them on the black fly.