Re: [VFB] Stimulator/streamer?

[Larry JOHNSON]

Tom:  The biggest prompt for using  Stimulators came one night when we were fishing Boulger Creek, one of the feeder creeks to Electric Lake.  It nearly dark, and we weren't doing too well.  I noticed a large moth (or fluttering caddis) fluttering across the creek in the twilight, and it suddenly disappeared.  I snipped my Adams off and put on a Stimulator and dragged it across the stream, and learned a great lesson.  The Stimulator has become my go-to fly in many instances.  Long live the Stimulator.   Larry Johnson "Big J" >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/11/02 04:28PM >>> I had a great day of fishing last Saturday, first casting dry flies to a large pod of hungry 10-12 inch fish in the Cub River (Idaho) and then dredging the deep holes with a BHGRHE for 15 inch Rainbows on a stretch of the Bear River through the Onieda Narrows.  When fishing on the Cub I tried a Stimulator as a strike indicator for a two foot dropper with a BHPT attached. I got a few whacks at the Dry, a few more on the dropper, but  the most deadly technique was to pull the Stimulator under water, strip, hold, strip hold until a fish whaked it... and they obliged with amazing regularity.  As is often the case, it was the only Stimulator I had with me, but it caught 15 fish until I lost it on the one fish I really wanted to see. I am curious how many of you routinely use the technique of stripping in dry flies after the drift, and which flies seem to give you the best results.  For myself, I'm going to be tying up a few dozen more Stimulators....