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Check out the article, “Trigger Flies,” by Kelly Galloup in the May 2007 issue of FLY FISHERMAN magazine. While Galloup doesn’t mention big brookies, any of the eight flies he describes would work in Minipi waters. I’d suggest you tie up a few for your next trip to Minipi. And to whet your fly-tying appetite, here are pictures of a few of Galloup’s flies. (The first is the Circus Peanut.)

If you’ve visited the Minipi Photo Gallery you’ve seen pictures of big pike. Well here’s the story behind one of them told by a skilled Oklahoma angler named Kevin B. Joyce, who caught his pike while fishing with Minipi Chief Guide Raymond Best. Together they landed that 17 pound, 38 inch pike (check it out at the Photo Gallery, “Big Pike on The Fly"), on a Sage XP 5 wt with a 4 x leader and no steel wire on the tippet. 

Here’s Kevin’s story:

“It was August 3rd, 2005, a pretty hot day on the lake [Anne Marie] and the brookie fishing was a bit slow. My brother John and I were in the boat with guide Ray Best. We pulled out of “Lover Boy Run” to see if anything was happening near “Lilly Pad.” When we got there, I cast a Porky’s Pet (red/white/black Deer …

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