your Top ten...well ok maybe it is 20

[Flyguy]

As I begin planning to tie up some Christmas gifts for some of my fellow fly
fishermen, I am having a hard time deciding what to tie.
IF you all would be so kind as to give me a list of your 20 favourite flies,
10 for trout, 10 for bass/panfish.
My friends and I are primarily wet fly fishermen, but I would love to hear
some dry fly ideas as well.
BE creative, you can list your favourite flies to tie, or your favourite to
fish, or both!
I am looking forward to seeing all of your Christmas fly lists, I plan on
tying 10 or 12 different flies and inserting them in a nice little flybox.

The Ontario flyguy.

[Stan Gula]

"Flyguy" > wrote in message
.. .
> As I begin planning to tie up some Christmas gifts for some of my fellow
fly
> fishermen, I am having a hard time deciding what to tie.
> IF you all would be so kind as to give me a list of your 20 favourite
flies,
> 10 for trout, 10 for bass/panfish.
> My friends and I are primarily wet fly fishermen, but I would love to hear
> some dry fly ideas as well.
> BE creative, you can list your favourite flies to tie, or your favourite
to
> fish, or both!
> I am looking forward to seeing all of your Christmas fly lists, I plan on
> tying 10 or 12 different flies and inserting them in a nice little flybox.
>
> The Ontario flyguy.

I'm sure many people will give you lists of wimpy trout flies, so I'll
concentrate on bluegill/bass flies.

It's hard to beat the general purpose wooly bugger. Tie it in small, medium
and large lengths in a variety of colors, with and without beads. You can't
go wrong with olive of black, but purple, red, yellow, chartreuse will all
work, and using a contrasting hackle, ribbing, krystal flash, legs, etc.
give you a pretty endless assortment to work with.

For top water, there's the ever popular poppers, sliders, and spiders. See
http://gula.org/roffswaps/swap.php?page=BG2003&id=11

The same flies tied big are good for bass. When in doubt, try a gurgler.
If I had a box of those (and I *do*) I could catch bluegills all day long.

--Stan Gula

[Cornmuse]

I won't chime in on the trout aspect as I really don't have a "Fav" trout
fly. Fish a lot of Adams' dries and hare's ear nymphs so I guess they could
qualify. Same with Elk Hair caddis and Red Fox Squirrel nymph. For
bass/panfish its a different matter. In no particular order, here are the
flies I wouldn't be without:

- Tap's Deer Hair Bug, red face white body and tail
-Dahlberg Diver, natural deer hair, gold tail
- Adam's Dry, size 12
- Assam Dragon, size 8
- Olive Wooly Bugger, size 4 to 12
- Whitlock Sheep Shad, size 4
- Black Nosed Dace streamer, size 6
- Muddler Minnow and/or Zoo Cougar, size 4 to 8
- Mickey Finn Streamer, size 6
- Partridge and green soft hackle, size 12
- Ballou Special streamer, size 4 to 8
- Byrd Gill Buster, size 10 and 12

"Flyguy" > wrote in message
.. .
> As I begin planning to tie up some Christmas gifts for some of my fellow
fly
> fishermen, I am having a hard time deciding what to tie.
> IF you all would be so kind as to give me a list of your 20 favourite
flies,
> 10 for trout, 10 for bass/panfish.
> My friends and I are primarily wet fly fishermen, but I would love to hear
> some dry fly ideas as well.
> BE creative, you can list your favourite flies to tie, or your favourite
to
> fish, or both!
> I am looking forward to seeing all of your Christmas fly lists, I plan on
> tying 10 or 12 different flies and inserting them in a nice little flybox.
>
> The Ontario flyguy.
>
>

[Stuart DeWolfe]

Dry
#1 size 18 Adams
#2 size 18 BWO
#3 size 18 Pale Morning Dun
#4 size 18 Yallar Parachute
#5 size 18 Elk wing Caddis
#6 size 18 Quill Gordon
#7 size 20 black or Red Ant
#8 size 14 Royal Coachman
#9 size 12 Bi Visible
#10 size 16 Light Cahill
These are my Top Ten Speck & Brown getters

[George Adams]

Trout flies only for me:

Dries:
Elk Hair Caddis
X-caddis
Usual (different colors & sizes)
Adams

Wets:
Hare's Ear & Partridge soft hackle

Nymphs:
Pheasant Tail
Hare's Ear
Prince
Sparkle Pupa

Streamers;
Wooly Bugger (Olive, Brown & Black)
Grey Ghost

OK, so that's 11 instead of 10, and that doesn't include midges or
terrestrials. Consider this a very basic list. On the other hand, if you really
want to go minimalist, here's three patterns that will catch fish all year:
1. Olive Wooly Bugger - sizes 14 thru 4
2. Usual - sizes 20 thru 10
3. Pheasant Tail Nymph - sizes 18 thru 10

Happy Tying




George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

[George Cleveland]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:41:19 -0500, "Flyguy" > wrote:

>As I begin planning to tie up some Christmas gifts for some of my fellow fly
>fishermen, I am having a hard time deciding what to tie.
>IF you all would be so kind as to give me a list of your 20 favourite flies,
>10 for trout, 10 for bass/panfish.
>My friends and I are primarily wet fly fishermen, but I would love to hear
>some dry fly ideas as well.
>BE creative, you can list your favourite flies to tie, or your favourite to
>fish, or both!
>I am looking forward to seeing all of your Christmas fly lists, I plan on
>tying 10 or 12 different flies and inserting them in a nice little flybox.
>
>The Ontario flyguy.
>
>
Trout:
Klinkhamers in various sizes and colors.
Pass Lakes in both dry and wet styles.
Scuds, I did really well with a pink one with flouresnt pink ribbing late this
season, but I usually tie and fish tans and grays.
Adams, (of course) standard and parachute.
Red Quills (of course).
March Browns tied Catskill style.
Gold Ribbed Hares Ear nymphs.
Soft hackle wets in various sizes and colors.
Griffith Gnats.
Snowshoe Hare winged BWOs size 20 and smaller.

Bass:
Dahlberg Divers in various colors. Sizes 2-6. Brown with a red nose is my most
dependable but wouldn't be without a few in chartreuse.
Wooly Buggers in black, olive, brown, chartreuse and white or combinations there
of.
Lead Eyed Bunny Leeches in natural, black and olive. Sizes 2-4.
Clouser Minnows sizes 2-6.

That's about it.That probably covers the flies I fish 90% of the time.

g.c.

[Lat705]

OK Here's mine:
Parachute Adams
Gray Wulff
Wooly Bugger
Pink San Juan Worm
Green Weenie
All Yellow Parachute Sulphur
Dave's Hopper
Red and Yellow Deer Creek Shad Fly
PT Nymph
Clouser Minnow

There's my ten top flys

[Peter Charles]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:41:19 -0500, "Flyguy" >
wrote:

>As I begin planning to tie up some Christmas gifts for some of my fellow fly
>fishermen, I am having a hard time deciding what to tie.
>IF you all would be so kind as to give me a list of your 20 favourite flies,
>10 for trout, 10 for bass/panfish.
>My friends and I are primarily wet fly fishermen, but I would love to hear
>some dry fly ideas as well.
>BE creative, you can list your favourite flies to tie, or your favourite to
>fish, or both!
>I am looking forward to seeing all of your Christmas fly lists, I plan on
>tying 10 or 12 different flies and inserting them in a nice little flybox.
>
>The Ontario flyguy.
>

In no particular order -- the trout flies:

three streamer patterns that aren't well known
PT nymphs, beaded or otherwise
Joe's Smelt
Partridge & Orange
EHC versions
GRHE versions
GRW versions
Klinkhammer versions

For panfish:

cork poppers
BH anything nymphs
big, black stoneflies
Partridge & Orange (hell, any soft hackle fly)
one of my minis that failed as trout fly but proved to be a perch
killer
black spider
Kenya bug

(OK, that's not ten but pretty well all I use)


Peter

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[Salmo Bytes]

"Flyguy" > wrote in message >...

> IF you all would be so kind as to give me a list of your 20 favourite flies,
> 10 for trout...

1) elk hair caddis
2) olive woollybugger
3) royal wulff
4) generic bead head soft hackle wetfly
5) parachute adams

6) roadkill streamer
7) jellyfish
8) nunchuck
9) bobber hopper
10) maiden rocker
10) marshmallow nymph
10) mini wiggler
10) crazy charlie, gotcha (under-rated trout flies)