Ranking Favorite Style and Fly for Trout

[GoldenRfly]

1. Dry Fly - Adams (various Caddis - close 2nd)
2. Nymph - Prince (beaded)
3. Swing - Prince (non-beaded)
4. Streamer - rarely… Wooly Bugger

 

[afishinado]

But sometimes.....it is the fly. Sometimes it's all about having the right fly.

As with nearly every question about what flies or fly pattern works best for an individual angler, the choices are all over the place. This confirms, the fly pattern really doesn't matter much most times, it's more about the technique / skill of the angler. Hence Mo's bumper sticker "It's not the fly.....you suck!" 🙂

 

[Ogdonia Ollie]

dry fly----purple haze parachute
nymph---pat''s rubberlegs coffee/black
swing----don's golden demon
streamer-col bates in small sizes

 

[JMP]

Dry fly - Adams
Nymph - Pheasant tail
Swing - Blue quill emerger
Streamer - Slumpbuster

 

[Roofin' Trouter]

Dry -various caddis
Nymph- France Fly variation
Swing- tan/ green killer bug with coachman brown hackle sometimes tan cdc
Streamer- micro jig golden retriever

 

[TheDuke44]

1. Dry fly - Neversink Caddis
2. Nymph - Walt's Worm/Sexy Walt's
3. Swing - Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail
4. Streamer - Pine Squirrel/White Death

 

[OSlumpBuster18]

1. Dry fly - Adams
2. Nymph - Lively Legz Double Trouble
3. Swing - Partridge Wet Fly
4. Streamer - Olive Slumpbuster

 

[jifigz]

Dry Fly - Either a parachute Adams or a Wulff in a blue dun color
Nymph - Prince Nymph or Pat's Rubber Legs
Swing - Partridge and Orange
Streamer - BUGGER!

 

[Wild_Trouter]

1. Dry Fly- Stimulator
2. Nymph- BHPT and BH Caddis Larva
3. Swing- Yallerhammer
4. Streamer- Conehead Buggers w/wo rubber legs

 

[mt_flyfisher]

Dry Fly - Either a parachute Adams or a Wulff in a blue dun color
Nymph - Prince Nymph or Pat's Rubber Legs
Swing - Partridge and Orange
Streamer - BUGGER!

It took 3 days and 28 replies for someone to finally list their favorite dry fly (well, at least 1 of your 2 favorite dry flies) as the Parachute Adams.

THE Parachute Adams (in size #16 I might add) is not only my favorite ❤️ dry fly, but it is overwhelmingly THE single BEST dry fly! (And statistically speaking, since only 1 of 28 listed it as their favorite that could be interrupted to imply that 96% of the fly fishermen here are fishing the WRONG fly. 😃

P.S. I’m not biased, just old and set in my ways…

P.P.S. I remember catching 100 wild trout on a Parachute Adams in 1/2 day of fishing, of catching 30 wild trout in 1 hour on a Parachute Adams, and catching 2 large trout on 2 successive casts on that fly. Well, maybe I’m just a little bit biased! 🤔

 

[shakey]

1 favorite dry- royal wulff
Favorite dry to swing - EHC
2 favorite nymph - I don’t nymph
3 favorite upstream wet - Stewart's black spider
Favorite dead drift wet- GRHESH
FAVORITE FLY PERIOD,and favorite to swing -Maurice
4 favorite streamer - black ghost

 

[gfenlikestolosepasswords]

FAVORITE FLY PERIOD,and favorite to swing -Maurice

After I posted, I wanted to go back and edit it but felt it would be forced. I was waiting for the Maurice to show up. I think I still have the origijnal one Matt tied for me somewhere, I hope.

 

[shakey]

Truly a great fly

 

[Shawn_H]

Maybe I’m dense - but I assumed the OP meant to rank your styles by preference and then give a favorite fly. Can’t imagine everyone here has the same exact preference of style order?

 

[jifigz]

Maybe I’m dense - but I assumed the OP meant to rank your styles by preference and then give a favorite fly. Can’t imagine everyone here has the same exact preference of style order?

I didn't even read the OP. By looking at others responses, it seemed straightforward, but maybe we all got it wrong.

 

[Shawn_H]

I'll play by my rules here 😉:

Ranking of preferred style:
1. Dry Fly - Parachute BWO (size 20)
2. Streamer - Half-Pint
3. Nymph - Micro CDC Bugger (i know but I fish it like a nymph)
4. Swing (gotta admit I have spent basically zero time swinging wets - it's on my list of things to learn. So I will give one that I like to let swing at the end of drifts either behind a dry or on a tag when nymphing) - Davey McPhail Caddis/Grannom Pupa

These are my preference rankings but I spend more time nymphing than anything else. Which is another thing I'd like to change.

 

[dudemanspecial]

Maybe I’m dense - but I assumed the OP meant to rank your styles by preference and then give a favorite fly. Can’t imagine everyone here has the same exact preference of style order?

You are right, and even though I didn't notice that, it still worked out to be correct. In fact I essentially only fish dries and nymphs. I do nymph more but prefer dries.

 

[tomgamber]

1. Dry Fly- Adams or EHC
2. Streamer- BH Bugger
3. Swing- Whatever dry I have on that doesn't float any more. or a bugger
4. Nymph- Hare's Ear
Ok cuz I typed mine yesterday but never hit post, its now in order 🙂

 

[dc410]

1. Swing - Breadcrust (absolute flat out fish catcher)
2. Streamer - some type of natural colored bugger (black/olive/brown with grizzley or dun hackle)
3. Dry fly - Stimulator
4. Nymph - Hare’s Ear

 

[Shawn_H]

1. Swing - Breadcrust (absolute flat out fish catcher)

Cool - never heard of this before - very interesting fly. Somewhat similar idea to the CK Nymph