What are some of your absolute favorite trout fly patterns?
 

This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

What are some of your absolute favorite trout fly patterns?
 

mdk77 wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

You may want to say what part of the country you are in and what kind of
fish you are going for. That being said, a bead head hare's ear nymph
will catch trout anywhere.

Pete Collin

What are some of your absolute favorite trout fly patterns?
 

mdk77 wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

Favorite dry: Parachute Adams tied with grey or olive body

Favorite wet: Skip's Nymph

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"mdk77" wrote in message
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This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

Joe Hopper.
Doesn't work all the time, but when it does the weather is usually nice, the
fish stirke on top and they are usually bigger.
It works in lakes and streams and is easy to tie.

What are some of your absolute favorite trout fly patterns?
 

On 15 Apr 2007 08:58:34 -0700, "mdk77" wrote:

This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

Pheasan Tail size 16 - 22. Never fails (well, hardly ever).

Adams (conventional or parachute).

When everything fails, BIG Royal Wulff (#10)

Dave

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Parachute Adams in sizes 12-20 work very well, much of the time.
Grey Fox Variants are great fish finders, as are Patriot
dry flies(Charlie Meck pattern).
The Usual(Fran Betters pattern) is a great light colored fly.
I am starting to get very fond of something I call the
Coyote Ugly, but hesitate to suggest something of my
own creation for any sort of general-use list.

Under the surface, Hare's Ear nymphs, Pheasant Tail
nymphs and Black wooly buggers all work very well.
Tom

What are some of your absolute favorite trout fly patterns?
 

On Apr 15, 11:58 am, "mdk77" wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

from the north carolina blue ridge: ausable wulff; stimulator; prince
nymph.

wayno

What are some of your absolute favorite trout fly patterns?
 

In southern Alberta, I like stimulators, bead-head pheasant tails, small
comparaduns, rs2, and parachute midge emergers, as well as big hopper
patterns.

Tim Lysyk

What are some of your absolute favorite trout fly patterns?
 

On Apr 15, 11:58 am, "mdk77" wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

This is going to sound repetetive, but here are mine:

Dry - Tan or olive EHC , Adams, Usual, Stmulator, Griffith's Gnat

Nymph - P.T. & GHRE, plain and beadhead, Deep Sparkle Pupa, tan &
olive, Thread body midge larva.

Streamers/Bucktails - Grey Ghost, Zoo Cougar, Black Ghost, Magog Smelt

Multi Purpose - Olive Wooly Bugger, Black & Grizzly Olive Bugger,
Hornberg Special, Pass Lake

"Cheater Flies" - Glo-Bug & San Juan Worm ( Sometimes referred to as
"guide flies", simple & cheap to tie, but very effective.)

Terrestrials - Inchworm, Black & Cinnamon ants, Beetle, Cricket,
Hopper.

Some of the above are local New England patterns, but should work
anywhere there are trout. If you had a few specific patterns to cover
your local hatches, plus the above collection, you should be pretty
well set.

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This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

For trout and panfish......

My own favorite is a pass lake. Works well wet or dry, it's highly visible,
it's nearly indestructible, and it's fast and easy to tie.

That said, if you limit yourself to elk hair caddis in a small range of
sizes and colors, and a couple sizes of gold ribbed hare's ears and pheasant
tail nymphs, you will generally do well in most places most of the time.
There are numerous references in the literature to the ehc being the single
best dry fly of all time. I believe it. Ditto the grhe for subsurface.

Wolfgang

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mdk77 wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

Well, the obvious answer is my absolute favorite fly is the one
that's working. ;-)

A lot of fly selection is locale and season dependent, of course,
but flies I always have on me no matter where I'm fishing are
parachute Adams, elk hair caddis, yellow humpies, blue wing olives
and royal wulffs.

Those are all dries, anymore if the trout aren't taking dry flies
they're safe from me and a lot of times they're perfectly safe even
when they are taking dry flies.

--
Ken Fortenberry

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mdk77 a écrit :
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

My favorites...

Dry: Royal Wulff
Wet: Gold Bead Head Casual Dress
Streamer: Massawippi (a Magog Smelt with a red floss body)

Those never failed me.

--
Hope to read you soon,

Denis
www.uqtr.ca/~lamyd

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This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!


The Usual

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Scott
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On Apr 15, 11:58 pm, "mdk77" wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

Floater: Adams, or any other upwing dry. If thats not working, a
parachute adams.

Sinker: My favorite is rapidly becoming a Copper John.

Streamer: Black wooly bugger with a streak of flashabou along the
side.

--riverman

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On Apr 15, 11:58 am, "mdk77" wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

It lacks originality, but...

Dry: parachute Adams or EHC. This might explain why I don't catch a
lot of fish on Penns. :-)*

Wet: over the past year I have been fishing a big Royal Coachman
streamer that I tie with a calf tail wing. It has been VERY fun to
fish and I've taken some pretty decent fish on it. Even got a first-
cast fish at the OH-MA-ha! micro clave (at the Secret Spot) on that
fly.

Wm

*Since this is your first year of fly fishing, I will explain. Penns
Creek in central Pennsylvania is one of THE finest pieces of water on
the planet for trout fishing. Some of us have been known to gravitate
there, like lemmings headed for the cliff, each spring, the call of
the water and the smell of venison stew too much for our feverish
brains. At Penns, I have seen more mayflies hatch- simultaneously,
within an hour, and of larger size- than on any other piece of water I
have fished. Those who have success there know these hatches and are
able to match them. Those of us who don't match them... have less
success. But not necessarily less fun, mind you. So these two flies
I mention (all three, actually) are not flies that represent specific
insects, but rather attempt to look, in a general way, buggy or
somehow otherwise tasty to the trout. As others have noted, these
patters will do well for you on most waters, regardless of location.
Except on Penns at 9:30 on a mild May evening, when you've forgotten
your headlamp, the fish are gulping all around you, and you are pretty
sure that last splash you heard may welll have been Frank.**

**Frank being ROFF's own Frank Reid. Google "Full Reid" for more
information.

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I am starting to get very fond of something I call the
Coyote Ugly, but hesitate to suggest something of my
own creation for any sort of general-use list.

I've given up my Elk Hair Caddis in favor of the Coyote Ugly. Don't
leave home without it.
Frank Reid

What are some of your absolute favorite trout fly patterns?
 

mdk77 wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!


I have probably caught more fish on a Renegade than any other fly. I
kind of forgot about it for a few years (of course I didn't fish much
for a few years) but rediscovered it a couple of years ago and have been
using it with great success.

A couple of other flies that really work well on the waters I fish are
the Royal Trude and Yellow Humpy. I fish mostly western waters in Utah,
Idaho and Wyoming.

Russell

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I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!


I just don't think in a "favorite fly" way any more. I always seem to look
around first and then pick a pattern based on bugs I see or bottom
type/season.

but, I used to have favorite flies, that I tied on simply out of faith.
Most were "standards" already named a couple times each

But, I will mention one that I don't see elsewhere in the tread

#14 Yellow and Gray Partridge soft hackle

( I mostly fish it upstream
.... much like a dry but it sinks some,
.... and in smallish streams
... the fish will eat it in the brightest part of the day when dries often
don't work too well, or even scare the trout
... you can see the fish or it's flash, sometimes even the fly
.... fun, effective, challenging, tactic )

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On Apr 15, 11:58 am, "mdk77" wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

Japanese Beetle.

What are some of your absolute favorite trout fly patterns?
 

On Apr 15, 10:58 am, "mdk77" wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

All good suggestions.

For me, a black gnat in various sizes with sparse to fluffy hackle and
threaded to puffy body has worked almost everywhere.

Also a few Adams in various sizes, same for elk hair caddis.

From time to time, an obscenely huge wooly worm or humpie will ****
them off enough to strike.

Maybe a weighted hairy concoction on a bent hook -- but never with a
bobber.

Then there is the fuzzy cream something-or-other with white hackle in
sizes from 16 to 24 that seems to catch them often enough.

Most of these start off dry and end up wet, but the trout never seem
to care (except for the caddis).

cheers

oz, who caught trevally in Micronesia on the black gnats, but 'cuda
killers worked better

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"MajorOz" wrote in message
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On Apr 15, 10:58 am, "mdk77" wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. Thanks in advance!!!

All good suggestions.

For me, a black gnat in various sizes with sparse to fluffy hackle and
threaded to puffy body has worked almost everywhere.

Also a few Adams in various sizes, same for elk hair caddis.

From time to time, an obscenely huge wooly worm or humpie will ****
them off enough to strike.

Maybe a weighted hairy concoction on a bent hook -- but never with a
bobber.

Then there is the fuzzy cream something-or-other with white hackle in
sizes from 16 to 24 that seems to catch them often enough.

Most of these start off dry and end up wet, but the trout never seem
to care (except for the caddis).

cheers

oz, who caught trevally in Micronesia on the black gnats, but 'cuda
killers worked better


In Alaska, they used big caddis, about a size 14. Loved those over those
22's that Hot Creek trout want. Getting so is hard to see them to tie on.

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On 18-Apr-2007, MajorOz wrote:

Then there is the fuzzy cream something-or-other with white hackle in
sizes from 16 to 24 that seems to catch them often enough.

Most of these start off dry and end up wet, but the trout never seem
to care (except for the caddis).

cheers

oz, who caught trevally in Micronesia on the black gnats, but 'cuda
killers worked better

Next year ???

Can you point me to good trevally fishing?
I will also do a google search

Thanks
Fred

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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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In Alaska, they used big caddis, about a size 14. Loved those over those
22's that Hot Creek trout want. Getting so is hard to see them to tie on.

In Alaska, for us on the river, we used #18 for the Grayling. But agree for
the larger bows we went as large as #12 on the dry-flies. For the bigger
flies the strikes of the bows were violent. I had no strikes when casting
upstream, putting a mend in and drifting the fly. All my strikes came after
the fly had passed and started downstream. I then started casting about
20 degrees down-stream with a reach-cast and was very successful. I think
this was due to the water being so clear, the fish were being spooked by
the fly-line. The Alaskan Leopard Trout hit on anything black.

When we fished Hot Creek, CA #20 and #22, I used the Scientific Angler
threader tool to thread the hook.
-tom

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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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In Alaska, they used big caddis, about a size 14. Loved those over those
22's that Hot Creek trout want. Getting so is hard to see them to tie
on.

In Alaska, for us on the river, we used #18 for the Grayling. But agree
for
the larger bows we went as large as #12 on the dry-flies. For the bigger
flies the strikes of the bows were violent. I had no strikes when casting
upstream, putting a mend in and drifting the fly. All my strikes came
after
the fly had passed and started downstream. I then started casting about
20 degrees down-stream with a reach-cast and was very successful. I think
this was due to the water being so clear, the fish were being spooked by
the fly-line. The Alaskan Leopard Trout hit on anything black.


I forgot to mention, when casting downstream in the clear Alaskan water,
I used 9' leaders and 3' of tippet.
-tom

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On Apr 15, 10:58�am, "mdk77" wrote:
This is my first year of fly fishing. *I've read some books about
patterns for trout, and I've talked with local fishermen about some
good patterns. *I'm curious if you guys would mind sharing about a few
patterns that are your absolute favorites. *Thanks in advance!!!

DRY:
1. Parachute Adams 12-18
2. All other Adams
3. Elk Hair Caddis 14-20
4. All other caddis
5. Parachute Hopper 8-14
6. All other hoppers
NYMPH:
1. Copper John 16-20
2. GRHE 14-18
3. Zug-Bug 14-18
4. Prince 14-18
5. Soft Hackle Pheasent Tail 14-18
OLD FASHIONED WET FLIES:
1. Lead Wing Coachman
2. Professor
3. GRHE

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On Apr 18, 11:23 pm, wrote:
On 18-Apr-2007, MajorOz wrote:

oz, who caught trevally in Micronesia on the black gnats, but 'cuda
killers worked better

Next year ???

Can you point me to good trevally fishing?

I caught them in the lagoons of all the islands of Micronesia and
Palau. I had the only fly rod on the "capital" island of Pohnpei.
Sizes varied from hand size up to four or five pounds. Anything
larger on the fly rod usually broke off on the coral. Did catch one
about 20 lbs. on a spinning outfit with a Kastmaster. Was on a boat,
so kept him out of the coral.
They are like bluegills on steroids and angel dust.
My understanding is that they are profuse almost anywhere in the
western Pacific, so you might as well go to Christmas Island and get
the bonefish, also.

cheers

oz, who usually used an 18 in. stainless steel "tippet"

P.S.: A 'cuda killer is a 4 to 2/0 hook with four to eight inches of
1/8 in GREEN nylon cord tied on with a big built up head of black
tying thread. Put white eyes on the head and whip about an inch up
from from the tail and "fuzz" it out.
S'posed to look like a baby needlefish -- they work great on 'cuda,
but don't sachimi the ones inside the lagoon.