FISHING -- My Thursday column on fly pattern selection for the annual Jackson Hole One Fly Tournament was published before I could get in contact with a busy Trey Scharp, who won the competition in September for the second consecutive year.

Scharp caught 51 fish the first day and compiled 1330 points for size and numbers of fish in the two-day competition for a dominant win and individual score that beat many of the four-person teams.

His secret both years:  The Scharp's Skunk Works Minnow, details on which he's keeping secret.  No photo of the fly is posted among the selected stories of One Fly winning patterns.

Here's what Trey had to say about his fly when I caught him off the river on Thursday:

The Scharp's Skunk Works Minnow is a pattern that I first tied in the 2013 One Fly.  I fished it for a day and had great success even though the water was chocolate milk.  I decided to fish it the following year after fishing it for two days prior to the tournament.  

I fished will Bill Hapersat the first day of the 2014 One Fly on a section that is noted for small fish....I filled my score card and had 493 points.  The next day of 2014 was section 3 on the South Fork, I again fished the same fly, not only the same pattern, but the same fly I had fished now for the last 4 days....610 points that day was enough for me to win the 2014 One Fly with the Skunk Works.  

This year I had no choice but to fish my pattern again....I drew Moose to Wilson, a section of river that I have lived on as a guide. 777 points the first day 51 fish landed...  The next day I fished the South Fork from the Dam to Spring Creek Bridge.  It was tough fishing, but with an 18-incher followed by a 20-inch fish at the end of the day, I had racked up enough to win for the second year in a row, with the same fly.  

My success with my pattern is reason enough to not show it off.  If the guides I fished with are anything like me, they have a mental snapshot of the fly.  

I named it the Scharp's Skunk Works Minnow after Lockheed Martin's secret development program.  

There's a bit about the success of the fly. How to fish it is a whole other story!