Fly By: Alberto
Jimeno
Recipe By: Alberto
Jimeno
Story By: Alberto
Jimeno
Home: Merrimack, NH
E-mail:
peruman99@yahoo.com |
Alberto was born in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, while his family was living there, but
grew up in Lima, Peru. He attended college in the U.S. and now
works for a semiconductor manufacturing firm in Manchester,NH,
where you can find him fishing the Merrimack River during
lunch. His homewaters are the rivers and ponds of northern
Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire where he fishes for
trout, bass, and panfish. Alberto started fly fishing and fly
tying in the year
2000 |
This simple, yet effective, pattern holds a special place in my
fly box because it was the first fly I learned how to tie. I learned
how to tie this fly from an old fly-tying kit I bought on Ebay. This
kit had just enough materials in it to teach a beginner how to tie
Wooly Worms.
The first one of these flies that came off my vise was also the
first fly I caught a fish on. I would love to say that first fish
was a 14" rainbow trout or a 20" largemouth bass but that would be
far from true. The first Green Grub I tied caught a 7" sunfish on
the downstream side of Russell Mill Pond in Chelmsford, MA. Since
then, this fly has turned into one of my go to flies when I go
panfishing. I fish this fly as a nymph, letting it sink to the
bottom and then slowly stripping it back to me. This fly has caught
sunfish, crappie, largemouth bass, and even a few catfish.
The original pattern called for chenille as the body and head
material , but I modified it with a beadhead so I could
fish the fly down near the bottom without having to add split
shot to my leader. I’m not sure what nymph this fly imitates, but
like the original Wooly Worm the Green Grub catches a lot of
fish.
--Alberto Jimeno
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