![]() ![]() With all of its built-in flotation, the “Stimi” rides high and is easy to see. Nonetheless, drifting a Yellow Simulator down seam lines has succeeded in bringing up fish! I have used it, or variations of it, on days when I have seen very fewįlies on the surface and absolutely no stoneflies. I'll have to say, Dave's advice has paid off for me. Tie and carry it in sizes 8 through 12,Īnd give it a prominent place in your dry-fly box, whether or not you fish stonefly hatches.” It looks like so many things trout eat that they're almost always glad to get one. In his book, Essential Trout Flies, Dave Hughes comments, “As a searching dressing, it is hard to beat the Yellow Stimulator. ![]() And if that isn't enough, you can tie it stoutlyĪnd even add rubber legs to fish it as a hopper, cicada or beetle. Little brown stoneflies and olive sallies. In smaller sizes and colors, it is frequently chosen to suggest yellow stoneflies, small yellow sallies, In large sizes and dressed with a salmon-orange body, it can be used to resemble the large black stonefly, also known as the The Stimulator is commonly thought of as an attractor, or searching pattern, because it can resemble many things It is also closely related to another fly, the Sofa Pillow, that Pat Barnes developed in the 1940s. It is recognized as the creation of Randall Kaufmann, a commercial tier who popularized it in the early 1980s.īut many credit the original design to Jim Slattery, who first called it his Fluttering Stonefly and then later Moving on down the list of ETU Top Twelve Flies, we come to the Stimulator, an extremely popular fly pattern that is useful in a variety of situations. Fly of the Month: A Great Searching Pattern: The Stimulator ![]()
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