If you only had 5 materials...

[HammerCreek 0]

Sometimes my mind wonders while fishing and I was thinking about this while stream-side this weekend. If I were dropped in a remote location with:

 

1 Type of hook in one size

5 Tying materials

1 Type of thread in one color

 

Assuming I was packing a vise, 4wt and in a trout habitat what would I choose...I'm as interested in what you would select as I am your reasoning.

 

 

[the.atmos 0]

#14 TMC 200R

 

1. pheasant's tail of good quality

2. mirage tinsel

3. cree or grizzly variant neck of good quality

4. calf tail or snowshoe tail of good quality

5. bwo squirrel dubbing

 

with white thread. can always use a sharpie to get any color you want

 

K.I.S.S. trout have a brain roughly the size of a pistachio. no need to sweat it.

[flytire 0]

daichii 1190 dry fly hook size 12

 

pheasant tail

peacock herl

grizzly hackle

hare ear dubbing

copper wire

 

12/0 veevus black thread

 

[the.atmos 0]

^ good list as well

[Wavey1988 0]

TMC 200R size 12

 

Hare's mask

Pheasant tail

Peacock eye feathers

Black hen Hackle

Partridge

 

Thread: UTC 70 denier in red

[Piker20 0]

Norman, those vice heads in your post, where do you find them? I have a vice with c clamp instead of the screw as in your pic and the head in there is a little small for me.

My list would be

Hook partridge lightening barbless #14

Thread benecchi 12/0 black

pheasant tail

Peacock eye

Seals fur

Fine copper wire

Cree or light ginger saddle in the #12-#16 range.

[Jagerboy 0]

TMC 3769 , size 12

Pheasant tail

Peacock

Hare's mask

Marabou

Copper wire

UTC 70 denier black

[flytire 0]

the left photo is just an xacto knife without the blade

 

the middle photo is a "streamside vise".

 

the right photo are pin vises

 

google will find all of them close to you

 

the only one that really makes any sense is the "streamside vise". you could screw it into just about anything made of wood.

 

the other two would take more dexterity but if you could hold the device in one hand and tie with the other you're in business.

[Kudu 0]

streamer/bugger hook

white 6/0 veevus thread

white marabou

white chenille with sparkle in it

lead eyes

bucktail

rubber legs

[Crackaig 0]

Hook: Medium wire #14

Suppose I'd have to go for cree hackle.

Gold wire in 0.3mm.

Pheasant Tail.

Glo Brite floss No. 12.

Hare's mask.

Primrose thread. (Gutterman Scala)

 

That would tie the flies for much of my river fishing. It would be different for the lochs.

Cheers,

C.

[Fish For Life 0]

Hook- nymph #14

black thread

Pheasant tail

peacock

copper wire

grizzly hackle

hares mask

[brookiehunter 0]

Hook: Mustad C49s #12

Thread 16/0 black veevus thread

Squirrel hide

krystal flash

copper wire

furnance hen hackle

uv ice dub in favorite color

[troutguy 0]

Mustad #14 94840

 

Female Red Fox skin

Medium gray dun cape

Wood Duck skin

Ruffed Grouse skin

Peacock

 

8/0 Primrose Danville silk

[Hoyt archery 0]

I hope I never get stranded where trout are the only fish available. Just saying.

[flytire 0]

trout are not the only species that inhale trout flies