[11th Warrior]

Which flies are fished wet? nymphs, chromies, etc?

 

[stone]

Nymphs, pupas (of which chironamids are a type of), streamers, boatmans, and some attractors...to name a few.

 

[11th Warrior]

attractor = Leech, wooly bugger, etc?

 

[Kuma]

attractors tend to have brighter colours. The flies you listed imitate real food items and are not attractors. (Brighter wooly buggers might fall into the attractor category as they don't necessarily resemble anything the fish would normally eat)

 

[stone]

11th: What Japander said.

The Royal Coachman is a good example of an attractor pattern. The bright red band attracts that attention of fish, and once it has its attention, the pattern vaguely imitates a host of naturals well enough to instigate a strike. So...attractors are generally flies that are not really an imitation of one specific natural, but because of the way it is tied, has features that can imitate a number of naturals depending on the way you present it. In this way, I consider the Woolly Bugger to be an attractor fly because it can imitate everything from a damsel nymph to a leech to a minnow. So a fly specifically imitating a leech, such as a marabou leech, is not an attractor.

Here's a good online article about attractors written by Bill Luscombe:
http://sportfishingbc.com/articles/tackle_reviews/attractors.htm

Cheers.

 

[HOOK]

Spratleys are attractors for sure.

isnt pretty much every pattern for salmon just an attractor?? with the exception of a few.