Trout on the Fly

Favorite fish, favorite places, favorite lures. Sportfishing is a game of favorites, and all anglers have them. This includes Marc Pierce, who lives in Montana and who’s an avid flycaster for trout.

trout Of all the flies in his box, Pierce has two favorites, consisting of a nymph and a dryfly.

“Trout eat 80-90 percent of their diet sub surface,” he says. “You’re going to most reliably catch fish on a nymph and the new bead-headed nymphs or Copper John, which is another bead-head nymph.”

“When it comes to dry flies, the Parachute Adams (the Adams which imitates a general class of May flies) is probably day in and day out the most deadly fly that I’m aware of. And now they’ve taken that up a couple notches over the past few years with a little bit of white on top of that Adams so you can see it better. The Parachute Adams is certainly, in Montana, something you want to have in your box.”