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Post by wintershope on Jan 2, 2009 17:52:29 GMT -5
;DIt seems over the last ten years the hornburg is rapidly becomeing one of my favorite trout flies.There are so many ways to fish it and so many places that it works so well.Does any one eles like this fly as well?
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Post by Mark Patenaude on Jan 5, 2009 10:30:24 GMT -5
Yes. I tie and fish them. Very effective. In fact, I had a large Brown take one on the Hoosac and bit through my 3x tippet. I saw the fish for a split second. Easily over 20".
MP
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Post by hsweren on Jan 8, 2009 18:18:16 GMT -5
When I was learning how to fly fish in the early '90's, the man that tought me how to fly fish called the hornberg "the Killer". We used white hornbergs with red floss in all the trout rivers in NH and a yellow hornberg with red floss as we trolled in some of the lakes and ponds. We almost always caught fish and to this day it is the first fly I use every spring in honor of Charlie the man that taught me how to fly fish.
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Post by jskowron on Jan 10, 2009 7:54:17 GMT -5
Do you guys fish them primarily wet or dry? I like tying them- I think they have a classic, old-timey look, but I haven't fished them that much.
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Post by hsweren on Jan 11, 2009 10:20:06 GMT -5
I fish them wet with a small black tungston beadhead tied on the fly near the eye of the hook or with a small split shot on the leader about a foot from the fly.
I have used them in the spring on the Deerfield, Westfield and Housatonic and have caught fish on all rivers with them.
if you are tying them, I highly recommend using them in the spring.
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