10 essential flies

[Fishigan 0]

I'm trying to put together some info to fill a couple of trout boxes. I would like to know what 10 flies you would consider essential for a couple of days of trout fishing. I am looking for 5 flies for browns and 5 flies for rainbows. I would also like to know the region you fish. You don't need to be state specific unless you want to. I am not going to come out and try to 45° ya in your honey hole.

 

[Pujic 0]

Hey Fishigan,

 

Depending on the type of water you are fishing, and if the fish are resident or migratory I would say the following would give you a good cross section:

 

Absolute Must Haves:

 

1. Woolly Buggers (different sizes and colors, beaded and non weighted)

2. Clouser minnows

3. Black nosed dace streamers

4. Black stone fly nymphs

5. Caddis nymphs

6. Hare's ear nymphs

7. Marabou leech

8. Hex nymphs

 

I love to fish streamers, can you tell?

 

Now, if the fish are resident fish I would also include:

 

1. Hendrickson dries (or any other generic mayfly dry)

2. Elk hair caddis dries

3. Soft hackled wets (partidge and orange, etc...)

4. San Juan worms

 

If the fish are migratory, you may want to carry these:

 

1. Egg sucking leeches (different sizes and colors)

2. Michigan wigglers, or Spring wigglers as they are sometimes called

3. Pinkies

4. Some sort of egg patterns

 

I fish mostly in Eastern Ontario, however I do venture out to QC, PA and NY at least once a year. By the way the above list reflects my choices, based on my personal fishing style and preference. I am sure I am missing some key flies which I don't use often which other members will suggest

 

Hope this helps bud! Best of luck!

[Guest]

I am not sure about specific flies for browns or rainbows, but I would suggest have these with you when trout fishing:

 

Woolly Buggers (follow what Pujic said)

Beadhead Hare's Ear Nymphs

Black Stone Nymphs

Hex Nymphs

Caddis Nymphs

Elk Hair Caddis (range of sizes and colors)

Adams

Royal Coachman

Blue Wing Olives

Atleast one terrestrial: I'd suggest a beetle or black ant

 

You should also consider:

Prince Nymphs

Soft Hackle wets

Zonkers

Black Nose Daces

Mickey Finns

 

Add some emergers and dries for whatever is hatching you should be all set.

[Sean Juan 0]

Really couldn't say without knowing the area.

 

I never leave home without wooly buggers, muddlers, scuds and hare's ears

 

Other than than its mainly area specific nymphs and emergers.

[vices 0]

The elk wing caddis has been my absolute fish finder for a few years now.. but if your fishing them for the first time in your local waters.. play with the colour abit. In the spring the caddis is bigger and as the fall approaches you'll find going down a size or two will keep the fish chasing.. I fish bows 90% of the time.. hope this helps..

[cornmuse 0]

Ten flies for trout. Eastern US fishing.

 

Adams in sizes 18 to 12

Pheasant Tail nymph sizes 18 to 14

GRHE Bead Head, sizes 18 to 12

Elk Hair Caddis, olive, sizes 18 to 12

Partridge and Orange soft hackle, sizea 16 to 12

Partridge and yellow soft hackle, sizes 16 to 12

Partridge and greeg soft hackle, sizes 16 to 12

Red Fox Squirrel Nymph, sizes 18 to 12

black wooly bugger, sizes 12 to 6

Ballou special or similar white marabou streamer, sizes 10 to 4

 

YMMV

 

Joe C.

[Guest]

cornmuse's picks are close to my own recommendations, but i will add for late season some white wulffs (as you can always add color with markers to match whats hatching if it isn't the white flies). The EHC can be fished wet when there isn't much activity on the surface with decent luck even......

 

steve

[Bamboo 0]

In the Northeast...

 

Beadhead GRHE

Pheasant Tail Nymph

Black Stonefly

Lafontaine Sparkle Pupa Emerger

 

Usual

EHC

Adams Parachute

Rusty Spinner

Partridge and Green/Yellow/Orange

ant

 

and (no. 11) grudgingly....

 

Black Wolly Bugger

 

- not really very big on throwing streamers!

 

-Bamboo

[Marty 0]

This is pretty funny!!!

Asking a fly tying group to limit themselfs to 10 flies

 

Up here in the midwest according to an old fart I know all you need is an Adams and a Hares Ear. He must be right cause he always catches fish.

I carry those and many others, my favorites are:

 

clousers

wooly buggers

muddlers

blue winged olives

light hendricksons

elk hair caddis

klinkhammers

partridge and yellow soft hackle

 

I could live with not having anything else but these.

But I won't

[MbCarp 0]

Browns- lake

 

Wet Daddy

Grouse and Claret

Golden Olive Bumble

Teal and Green

Olive Dabbler

 

Browns - stream

 

Stewarts Black Spider

Snipe and Purple

Beacon Beige

Borderer

Partridge Glory

 

Bows- anything:))))

[Jayhawk Jeff 0]

Lots of good suggestions. I would add the Copper John to that list.

[Troutman 0]

My flies will basicly be rainbow flies since I don't get too many oppertunities to fish browns. I fish streams more then lakes anymore but here in the NW there's a good selection of both.

 

Streams:

Adams

Parachute adams

EHC

BWO

Pheasent tail

GRHE

 

Lakes

Adams

EHC

Olive wooley bugger

Damsel nymph

Jim's Special

 

Jim

[B.C.TroutHunter 0]

Just get anything that matches the naturals in that area the closest.

[Thibodeau 0]

If there are may flys around you should match the color and size, but in a parachute or comparadun style. An adams parachute #10 to 14,w/ grey or olive bodies will match that hatch farely good. Go to www.sfotf.com. And no it's not my site. Soft hackles, Caddises, wooly buggers. All good.

[BusterWolfe 0]

Without looking at my boxes (which means I have to rely on my memory ), I would say for tailwaters in Arkansas I bring:

 

1. Scuds.

2. Sowbugs.

3. Woolly buggers.

4. Midges.

5. San Juan Worm.

 

Then for farther south:

 

1. Scuds.

2. Jon's Generic.

3. Dick Talleur's Peac-A-Bou

4. GRHE

5. Woolly buggers.