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.

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

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.

--
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Denis
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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

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.

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

"mdk77" wrote in message

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 )

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.

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