Fly selection for Sierra

Adams, elk hair caddis, black ant, beadhead pheasant tail nymph. All size 12. That's all you need.

Also, you've got to have at least one self-tied kebari style fly. Just saying. :-)

Here is the box I'm taking on the JMT. Bringing a few grasshoppers because it cracks me up using them with a Tenkara rod, and because they are supposed to be attractive to bigger fish in the Sierra. What cred I gained by bringing my crappy self-tied kebaris I guess I loose, with change, carrying these foam monsters. :-)

Just a couple great resources I've run across recently when reading up on Seirra fishing.

http://stevenojai.tripod.com/

http://www.davessierrafishing.com/lakesandstreams/lakeindex.html

http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5410679.pdf

"Bringing a few grasshoppers because it cracks me up using them with a Tenkara rod, and because they are supposed to be attractive to bigger fish in the Sierra. What cred I gained by bringing my crappy self-tied kebaris I guess I loose, with change, carrying these foam monsters. :-)"

I've had very good luck with grasshopper flies for trout, primarily in streams when hoppers are hopping around. I can't say I've landed any trophy trout with them, but that big "splat" does seem to perk up interest! The smallest trout I've landed on a hopper was a young Golden barely twice as big as the hopper! The biggest was 14".

But I tie my own hoppers from deer hair – don't care for foam, and as a hair hopper gets chewed on, it gets buggier looking and seems to get more bites….to a certain point!