The Eastern Spring Creek Fly
Box
by
Eugene P. Macri Jr.
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The Spring Creek fly box or better said, "Fly
Boxes" is made up of the best flies overall. Spring Creeks
biologically don' have the diversity of freestone streams in
terms of macroinvertebrate communities (insects and stuff) but
once you add the terrestrials and things you can end up with
quite a few patterns. So let us break this down into sections
based on the how you fish the fly such as dry or wet etc. You
can thus have a box (or two) of each which makes it a bit
easier to fish.
Dry
Flies: Let's make this easy you should have the
following:
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Sulfur dries 16-24 hackle, no
hackle and spinners ( Mostly Ephemerella
rotunda (invaria) and other
species.
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Light Cahill 16-20 hackle, no
hackle, and spinners (Stenonema and
Stenacron sp.)
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Tan Caddis 16-20 Represents a
multitude of caddis
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Green and Tan Caddis 14-20
(versions of Hydrospsyche and
Cheumatopsyche sp.)
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White Fly (Ephron
leukon) mainly for the Yellow Breeches if you
fish this hatch in sizes 12-14 similar to a White
Miller
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Trycorythodes
sp.;Trico patterns duns and spinners: 18-26; A
few sections of Falling Spring still have a little
trico hatch and you'll also find a few on the lower
Letort and occasionally parts of Big Spring. Also,
on the Little Lehigh and other limestone spring
creeks
-
Pale Morning Dun 16-20 Hackle
and no hackle; parts of the Yellow
Breeches
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Isonychia sp. size
14; Small Leadwing Coachman parts of the Yellow
Breeches have a late hatch going into early
fall
-
Paraleptophlebia sp.
The Chocolate Quill; Falling Spring, and other
streams in the east have this early to late fall;
sometimes they emerge early
-
Baeitis tricaudatus
Dodds; Blue Winged Olives; emerger all years 14-24
on all streams
-
Grizzly Bivisible Midge
18-24; works for a variety of midges
-
Black Bivisible Midge
18-24
Nymphs:
Okay try these; they work well.
-
Sulfur nymphs 16-20 in
various shades
-
dark brown fur nymphs
16-20
-
light brown-tan-olive
combination 14-20
-
sulfur soft hackles
16-20
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tan soft hackles
16-20
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grizzly soft hackles
16-20
-
sulfur emergers
16-20
-
trico nymphs size
18-24
-
Blue Winged Olive nymph; good
bet Sawyer's Pheasant Tail 16-24
-
San Juan Worm size 10 to 22;
works in variety of sizes and
colorations
-
red worm; sizes
12-20
-
red, brown, black, gray and
yellow midge larva size 16-28
-
scud patterns
14-18
-
cressbug sizes
12-16
-
caddis larva in brown, tan,
and green;16-18
Terrestrials: Very important at
different times of the day on different streams:
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Deerhair Beetles: sizes 14-24
in red, black, orange, green, and
brown
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Letort Hopper: sizes
12-16
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Letort Cricket: sizes
12-16
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Joe's Hopper or similar
pattern sizes 10-14
-
Fur Ants: sizes 12-22 in
cinnamon, black and orange
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Foam beetles and ants etc;
sizes 12-22 in black, orange, red, green, and
brown
Streamers: Yes, they work if
you use them!
-
Ed Shenk's Sculpin sizes
6-12
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Muddlers sizes 10-16; they
work on top too
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White Maribou sizes 14-16;
larger ones work well to
-
Black Mariobu sizes
14-16
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Yellow Maribou sizes
14-16
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Black Ghost sizes
12-16
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Matukas in various colors
sizes 12-16
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Little Brook, Brown and
Rainbow trout streamers sizes 12-16
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Wooly Buggers; black/green is
my favorite but they work quite will in all colors
especially all white; sizes 12-16; larger ones for
big fish
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