Troutnut Forum > Fly Fishing Discussion > Sulphurs taste good.....
| AftonAngler | June 5th, 2006, 2:43 pm | |
| Brule, WI Posts: 39 | In the current issue of Midwest Fly Fishing Jonathan Jacobs write a nice piece about Sulphurs and quotes a chap named Brian Clarke who speculates"...that trout eat some insects more avidly than others because they taste better." Kind of cute and I chuckled at the thought. But tonight on a not-to-be-named Northern Wisconsin river there was a very good hatch of both Brown Drakes and Sulphurs. The Drakes were very thick and are a big, clunky fly in the #8 size range - a real mouthful. The delicate Sulphurs are a demure #18. Fish were rising everywhere and a canoe with two dudes came floating through in the thick of things (piss me off) but I asked them how it was going as I was unhooking a buttery brown. "No d**n good! There are Brown Drakes everywhere and we can get a rise!" I suggested that they might try a Sulphur and the stern chap snorted "Why in the hell would any fish want to eat a Sulphur when there are all these Brown Drakes?" I let em get aways around the bend a bit and murmmered "Cuz they taste better" and promptly set the hook into another black spotted beauty... I have tried both types (honestly) and though I am no pea brained fish I do concure that the Sulphur is a far tastier morsel! *originally posted on the Wisconsing Fly Fishing board* | |
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| Troutnut | June 6th, 2006, 10:13 am | |
| Fairbanks, AK Posts: 1116 | I've heard those Ephemerellas are a tasty bunch! I'm surprised you found fly fishermen so doubtful of the masking hatch. Too bad for them! | |
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| Wiflyfisher | June 8th, 2006, 5:56 pm | |
| Wisconsin Posts: 209 | It's probably becuase the brown drakes burrow in the mud that they have less flavor than the sulphurs. Makes a lot sense huh? :) On the other hand, many avid FF'ers would say trout also get tuned into specific hatches and may ignore other drifting morsels. John S. | |
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