Bob Cramer was born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley and has been fishing and guiding on Mossy Creek since it was first cleaned up and established as a fly fishing only, special regulation stream. Bob is a creative fly tyer and has a number of successful patterns to his credit. But as far as I’m concerned his Disco Cricket tops them all. It is a fly that works equally well on freestone streams for native brookies. On Mossy it is a killer. For years my morning routine on Mossy was to fish the trico hatch; first the emerging duns then switching to a spinner pattern when the fall began.
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| As I fished the stream I would note trout, usually larger fish, in places that were simply impossible to get a tiny trico imitation to them. These fish were often holding behind a curtain of grass hanging to the water from an undercut bank. There would often be a small eddy and the naturals funneled by the current would ride a foot or more behind the grass before reaching the eddy and the waiting trout. I would mentally mark these places and when the spinner fall petered out and it was time to head back to my vehicle I would tie on a Disco Cricket. With a larger fly and a heavier tippet I could now bang my imitation through the overhanging grass and into the trout’s living room. I would often pick up a few of those “impossible” fish. I called it “plugging’ the shoreline. The Disco Cricket has been my fly of choice when no hatches are occurring and trout are feeding opportunistically; not only on Mossy but on waters worldwide. It is a great search pattern and has become a favorite of guides on Argentina’s famed Arroyo Pescado as has the Golden Retriever.
I tie the Disco Cricket true to Bob’s original pattern and with his approval.
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| Disco Cricket size #8...$2.85
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