[bothier]

Hello everyone,my first post and sorry but its a question.
My local water (brownies)has  been fishing well till last week, this has been a feature of the water for a few years now. A fellow angler hooked and returned a nice fish which spat out a load of sticklebacks.Thinking about this I wondered if at this time of year they switch to taking them instead of dries.I tried a few ugly looking lures with no success and wondered if anyone had a favourite stickleback lure. 

[Hamish Young]

Welcome to the forum 

For me it has to be one of these: Polystickle, Mrs Simpson or Sinfoils Fry..... but I am quite 'old school' in that respect. More modern patterns abound (I am sure) but these are tried and tested patterns for me 

H

[Rob Brownfield]

Polystickle has to be high on the list, but I found a Peach coloured Babydoll worked wonders when the trout were hitting fry/sticklbacks. No idea why, but it regularly out fished more imitive patterns.

Another  really easy one to tie is made with an olive zonker strip for a back and a fat dubbed gold rear body with red throat. Simple but can be deadly.

[bothier]

Thanks for the tips I'll be giving the polystickle a go this weekend I'll put some pics of my massive catch on 
Still learning to use the forum so please bear with me,two fish with a stickleback imitation,just to confound me when I cleaned them they were both stuffed with caddis cases. 

[Hamish Young]

Awesome 

[Derek Roxborough]

 the Peter Ross was considered to be a small stickle back representation, a silver Invicta does just as well, easgach 1

[bothier]

I've somehow managed to upload a pic to a previous post via the edit function,I apologise "must try harder" :   I'll get there eventually

[Marc Fauvet]

please "try less"...
 images of dead wild browns  ? no, thank you.

[Mike Barrio]

Yes, sorry John, I'll put something about this in the 'Adding Photos To Forum Posts' thread ....... it has become a sort of unspoken rule on the forum over the years and I should make this clear to new members

http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5254.0

Best wishes
Mike

[Derek Roxborough]

wasn't it Lee Wulff who said Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once? easgach 1

[bothier]

Sorry marc I'll refrain from posting the deid yins. How about cooked ones,would that be more acceptable    More seriously I only take what myself and my wife will eat, there's  no freezer full of fish.