My Three Favorite Trout Flies for Spring Feeders

My Three Favorite Trout Flies for Spring Feeders are:

• Shenk’s Cress Bug size 14
• Murray’s Shrimp size 14
• Shenandoah Sowbug size 16

I like fishing these flies in the sections of the streams below the natural spring. I catch many large trout in these areas. Big Stoney Creek West of Edinburg has many of these rich springs. I start about one hundred feet downstream of the springs. I then fish my flies upstream dead drift all the way to the springs.
The Murray’s Trout Nymph Leader is very helpful in detecting the trouts’ strikes because the built in MFS Indicators are easy to see.
The springs are easy for us to see by the rich bright green weed growth around them, both in the stream and on the bank.