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The August Fly Box

Black ants are good all month no matter where

you fish, be it tailwaters, small streams,

or lakes and ponds...  Enlarge photo

Jeff Wilkins Photo

Small Streams

These Patterns will catch fish this month.....

 #6-10 Golden Stone Nymph

#14-18 Yellow Stone (Sally)

#20Blue Winged Olive

#18 Sulphur

#14-16 Light Cahill

#16-18 Pale Evening Dun  #16-18 Sulphur Dun

#16-18 Pheasant tail (no bead & bead)   

#20-22  Pheasant tail nymph or WD40  #16-20 Copper John

Griffith's Gnat #20-24 

#18 Dun Caddis    Midges #20-24 Grizzly, Cream

#18-20 Black or Red Bead Head Copper John  

#18-20 Jeff's Superhair Mayfly Nymph

#20 Red Copper John  #18-20 Jeff's Copper Rojo

#14-16 Beetle  #14-16 Black Ant  #10 Green Weenie

ATTRACTORS:

Royal Wulffs #16-18  Royal or Yellow Humpy #16-18

Royal Stimulator #14-18

Adams Parachute #12-18

Delayed Harvest

&

Hatchery Supported Waters  

 Same Patterns as Above plus....

#14 Jeff's White Maggot  #12 Y2K all colors  

   #14-16 Bead Head Fresh Prince 

#14-16 Bead Head Banana  #8-12 Conehead Black Krystal Bugger

#8-12 Bead Head Tri Color Bugger   

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  A Freshly Hatched Sulphur Dun

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A Common Summer Insect

A Golden Stone

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 Small Stream

Hatch Chart

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Leader Chart

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   TN/VA Tailwaters

**In winter months Sulphurs apply to South Holston

only and can/do hatch at anytime

#16-18 Jeff's Budding Sulphur Emerger

#16 -18 Sulphur CDC Emerger  Jeff's Invaria Nymph #16

Jeff's Dorothea Nymph #18

#16 -18 Sulphur Budding Emerger  #16-18 Sulph Comparadun

#16-18 CDC Sulphur Biot Comparadun

#20 Baetis Nymph  # 20 CDC Biot Comparadun

#16-18 CDC Biot Comparadun Sulphur (upper SoHo)

#16-18,20 Pheasant Tail Reg & Black   #16-18 Sulphur Sparkle dun

#16-18 Sulphur Emerger     #16-18 Sulphur No Hackle

#16-18 Yellow Soft Hackle   #18 Yellow Jeff's CDC Mess

#16-18 Little Black Stonefly (Smith R, Va, also

Watauga R., TN)

#16  Grannom Caddis (Watauga R) 

 #18-20 Black Caddis (all R's, but especially the Wag')

#18-24 Adult Blackfly   #18-24 Jeff's Blackfly Larva Olive

#18-24 Midges  Gray , Black  #18-24 Midge Pupae, Olive, Black

#16-18 Jeff's Hunchback    #16-18 Hot Flash PT Nymph

#20 Henryville Special  #20 Copper John Red

#18-20 Copper John  #16-20 Pheasant Tail (no weight)

#16-20 Flashback Pheasant Tail (after a good rain)

#18-20 Jeff's Superhair Mayfly Nymph

#14 Beetle     #14-16 Black Ant    #10 Green Weenie/inchworm

Tennessee Tailwaters Hatch Chart

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The Mayfly  and Caddisfly Life Cycles

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Warmwater Fly Fishing

Largemouth Bass

Lots of surface stuff this month

 JJ Special #2,4     Conehead Spinner Bugger #2-6  

Clouser Minnow #2-1/0  Chartreuse/White 

Poppers sizes 2-6

Hipps Soft Body Popper Fire Tiger #4

Foxee Clouser size 2 

Gitzit Tube Fly #2 Black/Purple

Jeff's Lead Eye Lizard Black #2  White Zonker #4

Bluegill

Lots of surface stuff this month

Poppers size 10-12

#10-12 Black Ant

 Conehead Bugger Black #12  JJ Special #12

Rubberleg Montana Nymph #10-12  

     Olive Rubberlegs #10 Prince Rubberlegs #10

#10 Black Bead Head Wooly Worm

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Saltwater Fly Fishing

NC Coast

Clouser Black /Gold #2, 2/0  (Redfish, Trout)

Clouser Minnow  Gray/White/Gold #2, 2/0

Weber's Rattle Shrimp Brown/Gold #1/0 (Reds)

1/2 n 1/2 Chart/White size #2/0 (great for Bonito)

Albaclouser #4, #2, #1/0 in Olive/White, Chartreuse/White

Chocklett's Gummy Minnow #2, #4 (Albacore)

Lefty's Deceiver #2, 2/0 in White, Chart/White, Red/White (all purpose)

Clouser Minnow #2, 2/0 in Chartreuse/White (catch all)

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