Your favourite/most reliable fly?

dazza161989

Hey all,

Just said i would start a thread for people to share there most successful / reliable fly choice.

Mine is as follows:

Brown trout:
Dry - olive f fly, daddy long legs, gnat

Wet - alexandra, bibio, diawl bach.

Nymphs - gold head pheasant tail, hares ear, pink shrimp, buzzer nymph, caddis

Sea trout / Finnock:

Wet: Teal blue and silver, streamer

Nymphs: shrimp (heavily leaded)

Salmon:

Allys shrimp.


Of course i use hundreds of different flys and styles but these have been most effective.

Rho b

My most reliable fly (singular) as per your post.
Gold beaded hares ear.
After that, pheasant tailed nymph. Dry- gnat and daddy long legs.
I don't salmon fish.

dazza161989

Rho b wrote: »

My most reliable fly (singular) as per your post.
Gold beaded hares ear.
After that, pheasant tailed nymph. Dry- gnat and daddy long legs.
I don't salmon fish.

I also use gold headed nymphs now far more than regular nymphs....... They seem to be far more productive.

Rho b

dazza161989 wrote: »

I also use gold headed nymphs now far more than regular nymphs....... They seem to be far more productive.

Depends on the water, time of year and the weather, but its normally the first fly I pick out of the box.

dazza161989

Rho b wrote: »

Depends on the water, time of year and the weather, but its normally the first fly I pick out of the box.

Yes the conditions must dictate fly selection that is what makes a succesful fly angler.

I generally spend 15 - 20 minutes sitting and observing the river and observe many things like whether there is a hatch if so what insect, look for a feeding fish is it taking from the surface or feeding on nymphs, and how confidently is it taking the insect. Water temp, air temp, water levfl, light etc .......then ill make my fly choice.

fisherking

Green dabbler all the way!

whelzer

for river brown trout, if I could use just use one fly all season it would be size 12 DHE. If I could add another it would be a BH zonker. Reckon I could fish from March-September with just these flies. For a change of dry I would like to add a size 16 CDC tuft emerger.....

Having said that I tie 000s of flies per year, with the range of materials and patterns available now it is hard not to...

Apart from upstream spider fishing I find I "always" end up with one of the above 3 on my line, somehow regardless of what i start with.

Roll on 1st March!

floattuber_lee

czech nymph patterns and PTN. on the rivers buzzers on the loughs early to mid season season.

dazza161989

whelzer wrote: »

for river brown trout, if I could use just use one fly all season it would be size 12 DHE. If I could add another it would be a BH zonker. Reckon I could fish from March-September with just these flies. For a change of dry I would like to add a size 16 CDC tuft emerger.....

Having said that I tie 000s of flies per year, with the range of materials and patterns available now it is hard not to...

Apart from upstream spider fishing I find I "always" end up with one of the above 3 on my line, somehow regardless of what i start with.

Roll on 1st March!

Yes i agree i must tie hundreds of different patterns every winter.......i end up giving half to my old man.

Mr Bumble

salmon early - willie gunn tube
salmon may on - anything small, black, silver body, double
salmon late - orange/red

seatrout - lake early - bibio, march brown
sea trout - may on - green peter
sea trout late - green peter

if i had to pick one - green peter - will do for just about everything except early salmon

viper123

Rho b wrote: »

My most reliable fly (singular) as per your post.
Gold beaded hares ear.
After that, pheasant tailed nymph. Dry- gnat and daddy long legs.
I don't salmon fish.

I was going to reply with pretty much exactly the same as above. Pheasant tail nymph and GRHE for me will work from first day of the season to the last, on lakes from Corrib and Derg right down to mountain streams and rainbow fisheries.

SeaFields

Brown trout river - Hares ear
Brown trout lake - Bibio

Seatrout - Medicine

There was a time when my sea trout fly box contained only three patterns - Teal Blue and Silver, Medicine and Muddler.

dazza161989

SeaFields wrote: »

Brown trout river - Hares ear
Brown trout lake - Bibio

Seatrout - Medicine

There was a time when my sea trout fly box contained only three patterns - Teal Blue and Silver, Medicine and Muddler.

To be honest Sea Fields i forgot about the medicine. Interesting to hear how highly you rate it.......Better hit the fly tying vice this evening.

dazza161989

I forgot to add my choices for rainbow trout.

Buzzers( in particular red bead heads)
Heavy leaded bugs
Bloodworm patterns

mikeweed

Blue flash Damsel, neon Damsel, Klinkhammer, PTN and Sherry Spinner