Got 'em in the mail yesterday...
 

jonesin'

https://i.imgur.com/dxDniTsl.jpg

Bead head somethin' or other.





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Pheasant tail nymphs. One of my go-tos for just about anything.

THIS IS MY KIND OF "PHEASANT TAIL NYMPH"!!

Probably catch something with this too :shock:

Nothin a lil penicillin won’t cure.

Real men don't throw wet flies

They're not wet flies they're nymphs. You can look it up.

?? They're fished below the surface, hence "Wet Fly"

"Wet flies are lightweight flies that imitate an emerging insect, and nymphs are imitating the larvae crawling on the bottom." Just wanted to be clear since you made the demeaning remark.

If you ever get to fish the Cumberland River below Wolf Creek Dam, you will need a lot more than that. It's essentially the only bait used by most successful fishermen. Generally fished as a dropper behind a larger fly. Cumberland is the site of the state trout hatchery and a huge river stocks directly. With a water temperature of 52 year round, it also has a lot of naturally spawning trout that are stocked to add breeding stock.

The new artificial trout stream is something unique.

https://fw.ky.gov/Fish/Pages/Hatchery-Creek-Stream.aspx

I was built over several years with intense planning, is over a mile long, and includes almost every type of trout habitat normally found in eastern fisheries. It includes a lot of habitat catering to spawning and young trout, and is protected by structure to reject marauding fish from the river (including large stripers which prey on the trout in the river).

I fished it when just 6 months or so after opening, and it is an incredible little stream to fish. Biologists report that the spawning effort has been a big success.

It will never replace the miles of drift boats on the main river, but it is a wonderful personal fishing experience.

Looks and sounds wonderful. Not likely to ever make it there but I will be fishing these under a large dry or attractor on my old prairie standbys.

Brass beaded nymphs like that are my go-to fly for grayling in rivers here in Alaska. They work so well I rarely use anything else. And I've always considered them a wet fly. If they float, they're a dry fly; if they sink, they're a wet fly.

So I guess you're not a real man either.

Real men know HOW to fish wet flies.

We used to fish a dry with a nymph dropper on Spruce Creek.

When all else fails, my go to is an olive Wooly Booger.

I teach fly fishing to women with cancer several times each summer. Wooly buggers are great to get them started