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!!!

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

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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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

"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!!!

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