I have been saltwater fly Fishing now for over thirty years and have had the chance to fish with and talk to many Fishing guides and other saltwater fly fishermen about the best flies to use to catch Permit.
As a normal consensus there seem to be three separate types of flies that are always mentioned. The patterns most often mentioned are, Crab Flies, Clouser's minnows and Shrimp patterns. I will also discuss a fly pattern that is not often mentioned but that I have great success with, the Lefty's Deceiver.
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Let's begin with the crab patterns. There are many separate types of crab patterns from crabs tied with yarn, feathers, feathers and yarn, and my favorite, crabs made with foam. Probably the best known crab pattern is the Merkin Crab. This crab is tied with a yarn body, feathers on the end, rubber legs, and dumbbell eyes. Because of the weighted eyes, this crab can be worked a exiguous faster that many of the other crabs. The Merkin Crab is so well know among Permit fisherman that there are even permit tournaments named after it. My personal favorite crabs are the ones made with a coated foam body, and whether foam or rubber legs and claws. If you can find foam crabs make sure the colors are spoton and there is sufficient flash in the body coating to give abundance of reflection and flash in the sunlight. Because the foam crabs are not weighted, you can whether work them very moderately or you can add a split shot from five to twelve inches from the crab. The shot will allow to strip your line to pull the crab under the water and then stop allowing the crab to float back to the surface. Great technique and you should give it a try.
The second most mentioned fly is the Clouser's Minnow. It seems that a lot of people do not have the patients to work their flies slowly. If you do not have the patience to work a fly moderately that the Clouser's would be a good option for you. Because of the dumbbell eyes the Clouser's Minnow can be stripped fairly fast, but be rigorous not to strip too fast. The colors I would suggest would be, chartreuse and white, yellow and white, orange and white and orange and yellow. There have been many nice permits taken Clouser's Minnows.
The imitation shrimp fly patterns are flies that can also be very effective when Permit Fishing. Again there are many separate ways of tying shrimp lies. I prefer the ones that are tied with the head of the shrimp at the back of the hook so that when you strip the fly it swims backwards like shrimp do. Also I look for a shrimp fly that has some type of coating on the back that will give the appearance of shell. always pick lighter colors from light brown to white to even a light olive color.
Now for one of my favorite permit flies, the Lefty's Deceiver. The Lefty's in many ways resembles the Clouser's minnow with a few differences. The mail discrepancy is that the Lefty's does not have the weighted eyes meaning that you can work this fly much slower than the Clouser's. Again my colors of option would be chartreuse and white, Yellow and white, green and white and orange and white.
All of the flies that I have talked about will catch permit once you learn how to properly gift and work the flies. I hope you find this facts useful.
Clear water, tight lines and calm winds, Brian
The Best Saltwater Fishing Flies For Permit
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