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Stone Fly Prince Nymph
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Matched on Great Lakes, nymph flies, steelhead. Michigan and Great Lakes shop lead for steelhead, trout, and smallmouth patterns.
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The Prince Nymph is the Switzerland of fly patterns -- universally accepted and offensively effective. In Great Lakes tributaries, it passes for a stonefly, a mayfly nymph, or possibly a small existential crisis drifting along the bottom. The white biot wings flash like a surrender flag, but the fish are the ones capitulating. It works when nothing else does, which is the highest compliment a fly can receive.
Quick Facts
Where to Fish It
Au Sable River
MI · Freestone River
Pere Marquette River
MI · Tributary
Brule River
WI · Freestone River
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