A Driftless Year on the Fly.xlsx

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1	December	Week		What to fish	Western Patterns	Kebari	Presentation and Conditions
2	December		Dark Midges: January to May	Slow falling midges and nymphs when the temp is climbing, bigger buggers and streamers when it's dropping	Bunny Leech, Wooly Bugger, Zebra Midge, Copper John, Crystal Larva, Egg Sucking Leech, Frenchie, Shetland Killer		Fish pockets and slack waters deep and slowly with dark colored flies and smooth movements
3	February		Tiny Black Stoneflies: Feb to March	Mosquitos and delicate diptera on unseasonably warm days	Size 20 or smaller Gnats, Quill Gordons, Adams, and March Browns	Small Amano, Ishigaki, and Kuroi Kumo	Gently deposit dark micro-dries on the lower edges of the slows and slacks, on very light tippets.
4	March	9	Black Caddis: March to May	Dark midges, nymphs, and emergers, weighted and dry stoneflies in the mornings	Black Stonefly, Crystal Larva, Pheasant Tail Nymph, Shetland Killer, Pat's Rubber Legs	Sanpei, Wine and Silver	Fish the mornings deep and slow, and move slowly up and on to wets and dries higher in the column through midday
5		10		Small BWOs, baetis 16-20, and shinies	Copper John, Sparkle Dun, Rainbow Warriors, Juju Baetis, Scuds	Small Kaga (wet)	Late morning to early afternoons as water temp rises
6		12	Blue Winged Olives: All seasons, especially heavy in spring	Gnat Clusters and small dark nymphs	Griffith's Gnat, Red Tag, Pheasant Tail Nymph	Pheasant Tail, Hida Shokawa, Okumino Itoshiro, Shiojiri Sugippa-mak	Overcast and afternoons
7	April	13	Hendricksons: Early April to Mid June	Buggers, leeches, and streamers	Bunny Leech, Wooly Bugger, small Comparadun X-Caddis,		Especially on overcast and rainy days
8	MN TROUT regular season April 15, 2023	15		Small Dark Bodied caddis, buggy wet flies, complex wing-cased nymphs, emergers, cripples, and imagos	Copper John, Pheasant Tail Nymph, Prince Nymph, small black or brown X Caddis, Elk hair emerger, Hairwing Adams, Rainbow warrior	Ishigaki, Kintsugi, Pheasant Tail, Nikko, Usagi	On warm fair days
9	WI TROUT regular season May 6, 2023	16		Crane Flies and darker bodied dries	Adams Dry, Parachute Adams, Coulee Cranefly, Turkey Leech		Especially on clear bright days
10	May	18		Medium colored Caddis, Quill Dries, and Duns	Elk Hair Caddis, Quill Gordon, light X-Caddis	Cree, Kintsugi, Oku Mikawa	Cooler days, early mornings, and afternoons
11		19	Craneflies: May to July March Browns: May to July Sulphurs: May to July	Soft Hackles and dries in light grays, creams, yellows, and olives. Leggy Craneflies	March Brown, WD-40, Partridge and Orange, Coulee Cranefly	Amano, Mount Fuji, Nikko, Takayama, Zenmai	Play the higher parts of the column and surface through the midday
12		20	Ants: May to October Beetles: May to October Crickets: May to October	Gnat clusters and small caddis patterns with egg cases	Griffith's Gnats or Red Tags with egg yellow or bright green butts	Ausable, Killer, Matsumoto, Takayama, Hida Shokawa, Shiojiri Sugippa-mak	Imitate egg laying caddis and similar flies, even better in a light warm rain
13		21	Tan Caddis: May to October	Beaded Nymphs	Pink Squirrel, Beaded Prince Nymph, Sparkle Donkey Minnow, Wooly Bugger	McPhail	Productive all day on sunny days
14	June	22	Light Cahill: June to August	Complex buggy wets and dries	Prince Nymph, Royal Coachman, Cornfed Caddis, Royal Wulff, Pink Squirrel, Guide's Choice Hare's Ear Nymph, Egg Laying Caddis variants	Amano, Bubble, Hida Shokawa, Hida Takayama, Kaga (wet and dry), Minamishinano Iida, Oku Mikawa, Royal, Zenmail, Red Ass Monkey, Ausable Kebari, Quill Kebari	Fuzzy, hackled, buggy, attention grabbing flies from sun up to late afternoon
15		24	Light Midges: June to October	Droppers and worms	Pink Squirrel, San Juan Worm, Shetland Killer, Pat's Rubber Legs	Kiji, Killer, Kurobe Onikubo, Rusty	Plumb the depths with creepy crawlies
16				Terrestrials and foams, especially beetles and ants	Cinnamon CdC nymph, Brown Beetle, Chernobyl Ant, Gurgler	Kenbane, Kurobe Saeki, larger Kuroi Kumo,	In the hot days toward the end of June start chucking terrestrials
17	July	26	Hoppers: July to October Tiny Olives: July to October Tricos: July to October	Small Dropper midges, buggy nymphs and heavy scuds and bugs	Guide's Choice, CdC nymphs and mayflies, Crystal Larva, Zebra Midge, Frenchie, Ice Dub Scud	Bubble, C&C, Killer, Takayama	Move throughout the day from tailwater to headwater, warmer to cooler, deep to surface, diminutive to large.
18		28		Moppers, Hoppers, and Hippie Stompers	Dave's Dennis Mopper, Hippie Stomper		Plop terrestrials on overgrown water where there are grassy and weedy banks
19	August	30		All of the July flies plus Spents and Spinners	Trico Spinner (sz 20)	Hakusan Onsen, Mino Gujo	Dry flies tend to be less productive, but spents and spinners can pay off
20		32		Dubbing bodied beaded nymphs, Killer bugs and heavy scuds in deep pockets	Gold ribbed Hare's Ear, Ice Dub Scud, Pink Squirrel, Shetland Killer, Dark Copper John		Deep dark holes in and undercut shady banks call for fuzzy dubbing and some sparkle
21	September	34		Big streamers and articulated flies	Bunny Leech, Wooly Bugger, Muddler Minnow
22	October	40		Hopper Droppers with suspended midges and nymphs	Dave's Dennis Mopper, Crystal Larva, Czech nymph, Frenchie, Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear, Dark Wooly Buggers and Leeches,	Amano, Bubble, Ishigaki, Kaga, Kuroi Kumo	Fish suspended droppers and nymphs high in the column, right under their floats.
23	November		Scuds, Sowbugs, Leeches, Minnows: All season.	FISHERIES CLOSED FOR SPAWNING		REFERENCES
24						http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/amago/b-streams/flytying/tenkara.html
25						http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/amago/b-streams/flytying/pdf/Kebari_Pattern-E.pdf
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27						Tenkara USA®: Tying Tenkara Flies
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