staple rig?

[ba7718]

I live in Easton close to the Mill River and Aspetuck Rivers in Easton and the Pequannock in Trumbull, CT. I am a newbie seeking advice on a few staple rigs to have in my gear box thru June.
Single or dual fly rigs? Flies to use? The use of strike a indicator and its placement on my line? Basically anything involving the tippet, leader and flies in association to my area in CT on the smaller rivers.

I can tie just about any fly pattern (been tying for years just never actually fished them…go figure).

[Jon]

Hello. Welcome. My earth name is Jon. What's yours?

[ba7718]

Hi Jon,

Bill here. Where are you located?

[waterworker]

Hello. Welcome. My earth name is Jon. What's yours?
That is beautiful.Thank you....laughing is very healthy.I will probably live an extra year after that one.

[Jon]

Hi Bill! I'm in Guilford CT. I fish fresh and salt, but not nearly enough. You have some lovely little streams in your area - I lived in Ridgefield a while and got round that way. Lovely country.

I'm not sure about setting indicators and tippets and stuff - someone else will chime in no doubt. But as to flies, anything goes really, depending on the water depth, whether there are fish on the surface etc. It's a personal thing. I like to fish two flies on medium sized streams. If I'm prospecting new water I might fish a dry fly with a dropper of about 12-16" off the hook bend with a small nymph (pheasant tail, olive, take your pick) or midge pupa. Perhaps more important to me than the flies themselves is the notion of covering as much water as possible to find fishy looking pools and runs. For very small streams I might just skate a caddis or a hopper across, up, down etc. I also like fishing two wet flies (you could do a search on here for spider patterns (basically "soft hackles" - they're easy to tie (I know this because I can tie them). I find spider patterns very forgiving as they create less wake in slower pools but are effective in most water. I sometimes fish just one wet fly and drown it or treat it like a semi-dry fly as the situation calls for. I use a double blood knot to create droppers, but you can easily just tie in some tippet to the hook bend of the first fly.

The permutations are quite endless - and none of them wrong!

Cheers -- Jonny

[Andrew]

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You owe me a cup of coffee.

And a new keyboard.

[DA]

Where you place the indicator depends on water depth. The deeper the water the further up the leader you place the indicator, assuming you intend to drift the fly near the bottom. If you want the fly to drift higher in the water column, move the indicator further down the leader closer to the fly. For the small streams in your area placing the indicator between 24" to 36" from the fly would be about right. A little farther from the fly in the deeper pools.

[ba7718]

Thanks for the comments.... I guess time is probally the best lesson.

[Stripminer]

I live in that area as well. I fish a 3 weight on the smaller streams. I highly recommend dry / dropper setups with an Elk Hair Caddis or stimulator on top with a small pheasant tail ( 18 or 20 ) on a 18-24" dropper. This is my go to rig for the smaller streams. Lately I have been forcing myself to nymph fish as I really want to learn that art in the worst way.