Flies

[LeVanThe8Man]

What is the best way to run flies like what kind of flasher and lees lengths

[John E Powell]

A good place to start is with an 8" rotating flasher with 23" of leader from the front of the fly to the loop that attaches to the flasher. The three basic flasher blade colors are white, green, chrome/silver. Basic fly combinations will have mixtures of white/pearl, chrome/silver, chartreuse, green, blue, and glow. Picking a flasher with tape and then matching it to a fly or vise versa is a good way to begin building your stock. Tournament rigged (one each treble and octopus hook) is the most popular rigging. Better fly will be rigged this way with premium quality hooks. For what it's worth, looking through my box and the boxes of people I fish with, about 3/4 of the flashers we use are Spin Doctors and maybe 90% of the fly are A-Tom-Mik.