Favorite small stream flies

[Chaz]

Royal Wulff
Royal Wulff
Royal Wulff

 

[buffalo7]

Chaz wrote:
Royal Wulff
Royal Wulff
Royal Wulff

The ones I have in my box are so old ( about 35 years old ) I'm afraid they might break when I set the hook. Thanks for reminding me, I'll tie some tomarrow.

 

[Sylvaneous]

A sz. 14 yellow whatever dry; usually elk hair caddis. So many bugs are yellow in may & june.

For fishing downstream, a partridge and Orange or Partridge and yellow

Sz. 16 black foam ant. Sz. 10-12 black beetle

Underwater: a sz. 10 3XL ultrachenille inchworm.

But when I go onto a small stream, I usually tie on the yellow caddis and don't use anything else. Prolly' 90% of the time. If the water is up and they don't want to come to the surface, the wet fly or the inchworm is my go-to. Really hard to nymph the inchworm well when the water is clear. Deep holes are nice for the inchworm. If you don't spook 'em, wild fish cannot resist.
I just added the ant and the beetle because I know they'll work great. I just don't use them. I DO like to SLAP down a terrestrial in a brookie crik every so often but it's not what's tied onto my line most often.
I've been told by some real experts that fishing any big bushy dry on a wild trout/brookie stream when it is high & off color from a rainfall is really good. I don't have that much experience with that technique.

Syl

 

[MattBoyer]

Size 10-14 marabou muddler with a little weight tied in. Olive, brown and white with fire red ultra thread. I loves me them strikes in a 2 or three foot hole where they just materialize and suck down the fly, or disappear completely if you miss the take. I always think of the movie predator when you can see the bottom, then all of a sudden there's a fish in the middle of the hole, then he's gone again.

Boyer

 

[Acristickid]

Any big bushy dryfly. Don't see how one is more effective than another since brookies are not really selective at all. This is really the easiest fly fishing there is- sans Slate Run or limestone brookie streams.

Buggers are effective no question; however, to me nowhere near as fun as slinging dries.

Really don't go brookie fishing to fish buggers. When I think brookie fishing, it is a lonely peice of water, in a scenic mountain setting, in the middle of summer or really early season when many waters are high and or closed.

 

[sniperfreak223]

dasofas wrote:
+1 for Royal Wullf size 14. Have a new tie (new to me at least) that has the abdomen band in a bright green rather than the traditional red.

I believe they refer to that one as either the "Lime Wulff" or the "Tennessee Wulff".

 

[buffalo7]

sniperfreak223 wrote:

dasofas wrote:
+1 for Royal Wullf size 14. Have a new tie (new to me at least) that has the abdomen band in a bright green rather than the traditional red.

I believe they refer to that one as either the "Lime Wulff" or the "Tennessee Wulff".

There is a lime trude, it has a white hair wing over the back behind the hackle (never tied one). I always liked the Royal Wolf and Grizzly Wolf but I kind of went to the parachute flies, But I like the way the Wolf flies sit up in the riffles.