What Flies

[fritz]

were the most fun for you to fish this year?

Mine were:

Nymph = Pheasant Tail
Wet fly/Emerger = March Brown
Dry = Slate Drake (Spinner)

 

[tomgamber]

Drake spinner or CDC sulfur at Pine for the Jam
Clouser at the beach
Olive Bugger at the local lake

 

[shipnfish2006]

Streamer: Golden Retriever (Gold Estaz Beadhead Bugger)
Attractor Dry: Thunderhead (my go to brookie fly)
Realistic Dry: Orange Sulphur
Nymph: Simple nymph (Rabbit hair body, pheasant tail tail, beadhead, and copper wire) Takes two minutes to tie and man is it deadly.
Rookie of the Year (First year fishing with it): A polypropelene caddis (floats like cork and brookies and browns loved it.)

 

[scotto]

tan foam caddis-floats like a cork and is deadly in pocket water
x2 caddis
orange beetle
green goblin nymph - fish ate it all year

 

[MKern]

nymph = my variation of a pheasant tail.

dry = parachute with dun microfibit tails split, dun para post, and a cream body.

 

[jayL]

Nymph = Pheasant Tail
Wet fly/Emerger = hare's ear soft hackle
Dry = cdc caddis
streamer = olive bugger

 

[JackM]

I had the most fun with the original and variations of Dave's Yellow Zoo Cougar and also on top with my loop-wing cdc sulfur.

 

[sandfly]

Nightcrawler, salmon egg, cheese, garden hackle, crickets, live baby brookies, and the old favorite pellets....

Ooops, wrong forum...lol...

 

[flybop]

mmm, Zoo Cougars...

http://www.madeontheyellowstone.com/madeontheyellowstone/Brown_Trout/IMAG010A.JPG

 

[dryflyguy]

Any fly that floats is always fun - thats why I only fish dry flies.


That said, my best fishing from this year:

the grannom hatch on Penns creek last week of April. - #14 grannom caddis
sulphers on the little juniata river mid may - #14 sulpher
terrestial fishing, all summer, and right thru october - the best I can ever remember, - mostly with #14 crowe beetle

 

[sundrunk]

Good topic,


Catskill Hendrickson

Blue quill, grays & olives

Griff knat #18 (black)

 

[shultzy501]

Nymph - A brown-olive beaded thorax mayfly nymph that I tie.
Dry - Sulfur Comparadun

 

[PaulG]

Being a dryfly guy!

Orange Ant

Crowe Beetle

Tan Caddies dry, Caddies emergers

Streamers

PaulG

 

[shakey]

i had a lot more fun with soft hackles this year than any other type of fly.

starling and purple late winter into early spring.
peacock and brown and partridge and orange spring.
tups indespensible summer.
back to peacock based for fall and winter.

 

[Padraic]

shakey wrote:
i had a lot more fun with soft hackles this year than any other type of fly.

starling and purple late winter into early spring.
peacock and brown and partridge and orange spring.
tups indespensible summer.
back to peacock based for fall and winter.

So seriously... what do you use for the dubbing on the Tups Indispensible?

 

[shakey]

usually i use tups pink real seal from feather craft in st. louis.i tye a variation with olive hackle rather than dun and a more easter egg pink rabbit dubbing mixed with a little cream antron.this variation is good on early season stocked browns.

on another forum (clarks bamboo site)i saw dubbing of claret mixed with yellow i'd like to try .i might use claret seal and cream goat.

i'd be glad to tye you some.

 

[shakey]

BTW i think the original recipe for tups dubbing included wool from a ram's naughty bits.i think i'll skip thay part

 

[sandfly]

hey i might have some of that dubbing some where...

 

[Padraic]

shakey wrote:
BTW i think the original recipe for tups dubbing included wool from a ram's naughty bits.i think i'll skip thay part

Yeah, that's what I was wondering when I asked. I thought to myself, as hard as some guys work to catch trout... that's just not worth it!

Sandfly wrote:
hey i might have some of that dubbing some where...

And I am not asking where you got it!! :lol: :lol:

 

[Stone_Fly]

Fishing Green Drakes to rising brookies, using my Pearl Jam to catch monster brookies. The biggest wild brookie I caught this year was 14 inches, but there is over a week left.