Backcountry Brook Trout Flies!

Most southern Ontario anglers associate brook trout fishing with tiny spring fed creeks filled with eager small trout. Once you head north of Algonquin provincial park what you typically think of brook trout will be challenged. Northern Brookies are predators looking for a big meal. You’d probably be better off bringing your smallmouth bass box than any small stream trout box.

Nick has been fishing the Ontario backcountry for two decades and loves to share his modern adaptions of brook trout patterns for targeting our native char in the North.

McMickey

Hook: Streamer 4xl size 4 or 2
Tail: yellow blood quill marabou
Body: silver polar chenille medium
Wing: yellow blood quill marabou
Head: yellow laser dub
Cheeks: red laser dub
Head: black nickel cone large

Chubby Dragon

Hook: streamer 4xl size 6
Tail: pearl Krystal flash
Body: olive ice dub
Foam: chartreuse 2mm foam
Wing: EP fibre white
Legs: olive and black barred rubber

Wounded Cheezie

Hook: streamer 4xl size 4 or 2
Weight: lead wire .025"
Tail: chartreuse marabou
Body: fire orange dubbing
Wing: fire orange Zonker strip
Collar: orange or brown hen hackle
Head: fire orange sculpin wool  or laser dub