ken fortenberry

In picking through all my flies to select the ones I want to
carry in my vest that day I came across a yellow humpy that
must have been among the first I ever tied. The proportions
were all wrong, the hackle was at least two sizes too big
and poorly tied to boot. So naturally I tossed it in the box.

I challenge you to find ANYTHING in, near, or around a North
Carolina mountain stream that looks like a yellow humpy.
There is no aquatic insect, surface or sub-surface that looks
like a yellow humpy, there is no terrestrial or even extra-
terrestrial that looks like a yellow humpy ! So why do they
work ? Woudn't you like to just once be able to do a Vulcan
mind meld with a trout and ask him "What in the hell were you
THINKING ?"

--
Ken Fortenberry

davplac

Ken Fortenberry writes:

Second question: "Why in hell would you take a Royal Coachman in all its
variants, or a *big* Red Devel Bug?"

swit77777

just ask Willi *LOL* (sorry couldn't resist).

seriously, we have a coastal stream in NJ on which about the only dry fly which
will work is a "yellow" anything. Why? who knows. This stream's most consistent
hatch are a variety of caddis, perhaps yellow is a trigger in the trout's color
spectrum for caddis? (I certainly don't know).


-- so much fishing, so little time --
--please remuv the 'NOWAY2it' from my email addy to email me--

davplac

Before the Net Nazis chime in, make that Devil.

george9219

Devil, like in "Satin"? <G>


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

larry l

I don't know about NC but a yellow humpy about a size 16 isn't too bad an
imitation of a pale mayfly cripple/ emerger ... think of the tails as
"shuck/ nymph" the hump as "wingcase, partially trapped wing" and the yellow
as the dun's color starting to show ... them squint, look at the humpy from
underneath, and try to feel like a very hungry trout <G>... maybe you'll
see the similarity

Little yellow things are pretty common in western water .... some stones,
several mayfly species, a few caddis all have decidedly yellow tints ... and
the humped and ragged shape is really pretty ideal for a "could be a
crumpled up anything ... take your pick, Mr Trout ... fly" ..... I've
never fished NC but hunger leads to experimentation and most freestone trout
aren't that well fed.

In a similar vein ... why the hell would anyone be the FIRST person to try
eating an Artichoke? "Let's try something new today, honey. Maybe one of
these sticky, prickly, thistles? We could steam it an hour then just eat
the very tips of each leaf." My guess is that whoever it was would have
tried a Yellow Humpy too <G>

jcook

I think a mind meld with a trout would produce "........food......flee!..
........food........flee!............food......... ...flee!......"

A yellow humpy is hardly radical -- how about a flo. orange hot-n-tot
for walleye, a purple rubber worm for bass. I hear the hot spoon color
on the great lakes is "monkey puke". Look it up at Cabelas.

I had a bright blue 3" Rapala that I caught ALOT of bass on. It was my
go-to lure for years, even after it lost its eyes, and most of its shine.
I felt invincible with that lure on my line...

Jon.

mark f.

The Best thing about a humpy, it FLOATS.

david snedeker

An ant.

Dave

jim davis

Off the subject but... My wife and I are contemplating moving to NC.
Maybe around Wilson, as she is an antique dealer. Where does one find
good fly fishing in NC? Mind you I am from southern California and have
not been to NC yet.

Thanks!