Most Used Fly?

[NCPAtrtbum]

Size 12 Hoppers destroyed fish for me this summer
Extended body bwo's in size 18 are my most used fly though, love em, so do the brookies.

 

[philfisher]

Definitely BH hare's ears in 14 and 16. To a lesser extent, scuds.

 

[Acristickid]

PT size 16

 

[Chaz]

Royal Wulff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dubthethorax]

for bottom bouncing...
size 20 mcfly foam eggs, all colors but the most successful for me is oregon cheese

subsurface....
BWO emerger in size 18

dry...
cant be the adams

and honorable mention for pink san juan worms.

 

[PatriotFly26]

I second that. Royal Wulff all the way. It has produced tons of fish for me, in all types of water, almost all conditions. Being a dry fly fisherman for the most part. It is probably my most used fly.

 

[ant]

Dry: Green Elk Hair X-Caddis with brown antron shuck. Maybe some cdc mixed in there if I am feeling saucy.

I'd like to see a pic of that, jdaddy. Sounds pretty interesting. I tried to Google it and came right back here.... 🙂

 

[jdaddy]

I'd like to see a pic of that, jdaddy. Sounds pretty interesting. I tried to Google it and came right back here.... 🙂

PM your email to me. Tully trout eat the fool out of them.

 

[PatriotFly26]

I second that, Royal Wulff. As a Dry Fly fisherman mainly, the royal wulff is one of my favorites not only to tie on, but to tie as well.

 

[Atlas]

Great question...its funny because I was just thinking about this very question the other day....

Favorite dries are (mostly #16-22):

1. Parachute adams - far and away my favorite, seems to work in so many situations...ran out of cream midges the other day when they were coming off and 22 PA filled in nicely

2. BWO
3. Royal wulff
4. foam beetles

also, not a dry but a brown BH wooly bugger seems to go a long way for me - looks like so many different things.

 

[bikerfish]

I had good luck this year with a size 16 olive soft hackle wet. just seemed to catch fish when all else failed.

 

[PACOFRANSICO]

The partidge n orange, really I find it hard to believe no one mentioned it yet.

The bead head hare's, basic ant and the rubber legged san jaun. Oh and I forget the "zug".

 

[gfen]

what, does everyone skip my posts? falls under "floss and silk bodied spiders," thank you very much.

 

[PACOFRANSICO]

Sorry Gfen, too much stout -n- not enuff sleep.....

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

Sorry Gfen, too much stout -n- not enuff sleep.....

Sounds like a good problem! 🙂

BWO's all the way. Hatch on most streams and can hatch the longest of most flies. Nymphs and traditional dries.

Second is Caddis and more Caddis. CDC and Elk Hair, emergers as droppers too.

after that.......
scuds, cress bugs, buggers, hares ear nymph, pt nymph and copper johns with rubber legs.

 

[PaulG]

dryflyguy wrote:
With the recent onset of cold winter weather, it looks like I'm probably done fishing until next spring.
And I've started doing inventory of my fly stock to see what I have to replace over the winter for next year. I always enjoy pulling all of those chewed up flies out of my boxes, and reflecting back over the past year however
I guess I've become a creature of habit though, because it seems most of my reties involve the same 5-6 patterns year after year now.

By far, my most used flies are beetles. And I'm sure that's because I fish them all summer and fall. On tiny brookie streams, on up to our biggest trout rivers - fish really hammer these things just about everywhere I fish

As for aquatic insects, I go through more sulphers than anything else. Due to the fact that hatch for quite a long period of time, and because they're so widespread I'm sure
I also usually have to retie lots of BWO's, hendricksons, and grannoms

Bill

My most used flies are the Crowe beetle and orange ant. I had a talk once with Bob Clouser. We were talking about all the new patterns out there, He told me , Fish eat the same things year after years, so just stick with the same basic patterns.\ and went on to tell me about 5 or 6 patterns he likes.

When you said about the 5 or 6 patterns you tie the most, it reminded me of that talk!

PaulG

 

[SBecker]

PatriotFly26 wrote:
I second that. Royal F"n Wulff all the way. It has produced tons of fish for me, in all types of water, almost all conditions. Being a dry fly fisherman for the most part. It is probably my most used fly.

I fixed it for you Patriot, The Royal Wulff has a name change.

 

[SBecker]

Chaz wrote:
Royal F'n Wulff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fixed for you as well Chaz

 

[midnightangler]

Black woolly sculpin. A great streamer, a great night fly.

 

[JakesLeakyWaders]

Nymphs: Gold ribbed beadhead hare's ear, small black tungsten bead stoneflies, clouser crayfish

Streamers: Olive beadhead bugger

Dries: Griffiths gnat, beetles, Elk caddis