Jaydub 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2016 I could have gone several different ways here. I tried to keep it a "12 best" list. If I had to restrict myself to 12 flies forever, it might be a different list. Pacific Northwest: Troth pheasant tail Prince nymph Silvey's caddis pupa Pat's rubber legs Seal bugger Chromie BWO thorax PMD parachute Quigley's cripple X-caddis Flying ant Norm Woods special Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flat Rock native 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2016 tidewater, I am giving this topic a bump. I am somewhat surprised that more lists were not posted. Perhaps many trout guys are out enjoying a brown trout run or it is just too hard to narrow it down to 12. Would enjoy hearing from Al and/or Gretchen. Their work on the Fly Pattern Encyclopedia is still among my top 3 books ever, great inspiration for trout catchers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bruce Norikane 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2016 Colorado Parachute ant Klinkhamer style emerger (many sizes and colors) foam beetle Parachute Adams Griffith's Gnat Mole Fly Rio Grande Trude Beadhead Pheasant Tail Pat's Rubber Legs Span Juan Worm Zebra Midge Blue Poison Tung Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
redietz 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2016 Colorado Parachute ant Klinkhamer style emerger (many sizes and colors) foam beetle Parachute Adams Griffith's Gnat Mole Fly Rio Grande Trude Beadhead Pheasant Tail Pat's Rubber Legs Span Juan Worm Zebra Midge Blue Poison Tung Is your Mole fly the original or Charlie Craven's variation with CdC? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flytyer62 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2016 I fish in New England Pheasant tail hares ear ( nat., olive, black) Riffle stone deep sparkle pupa green rock worm SBF hendrickson nymph Elk hair caddis rusty spinner ( 12-24 parachute BWO ( 18-24) Hair wing dun in Hendrickson, red quill, sulfur, March brown Parachute light cahill compara dun ( BWO, sulfur, red quill, steve Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ihang10 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2016 Virginia Shanandoah streams... 1. Black Betty 2. Cooper John 3. Prince nymph 4. Elk hair CDC 5. GRBHHE 6. BHPT 7. Olive crystal bugger 8. Lime trude 9. Zebra midge 10. SAN Juan 11. Clown egg 12. Yellow/orange stimulator Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bruce Norikane 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2016 Is your Mole fly the original or Charlie Craven's variation with CdC? I tie Craven's Mole Fly. Have never heard of the original. I googled and first two pages are all Craven's. Googling mole fly images, I found this. Is this the original? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bighornbuster 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2016 In no particular order: rio grande king trude style san juan worm purple haze psycho prince bead head prince lightning bug wooly bugger simulator(Kaufmann's) stimulator muddler minnow pheasant tail palomino midge I have boxes and boxes of these but I still keep tying them The muddler is an older pattern but it never fails on the Yellowstone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
redietz 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2016 Is your Mole fly the original or Charlie Craven's variation with CdC? I tie Craven's Mole Fly. Have never heard of the original. I googled and first two pages are all Craven's. Googling mole fly images, I found this. Is this the original? No. It's more of a style of tying (named after the River Mole in England) where the wing sticks out over eye on a dry fly ("Advanced WIng"). I think Craven based his fly on the idea (I could be wrong), but I know that Gary LaFontaine had a fly explicitly based on the idea ("the Occasion"). The fairly popular French fly "Pont-Audemer" was a copy as well. The idea is that the fly floats tail down, with the wing sticking up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tidewaterfly 0 Report post Posted November 28, 2016 Many thanks to all who replied! If 12 couldn't be listed, no problem, I expected some folks might have fewer in their list. I knew that more could be listed, but decided to limit it to 12. I'll be compiling a master list from the responses. I also posted a similar thread on 2 other sites, and got a good cross section of geographic areas. Just browsing the listed flies I find it very interesting that there are a few that seem to be universal. Anyway, thanks again all! BTW, if anyone else wants to post their list, feel free, as the more the better! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bellevue.chartreuse.trout 0 Report post Posted November 28, 2016 1. Adams - Catskill or parachute - sizes 12 - 20 2. BWO - sizes 12 through 20 mostly parachute style 3. March Brown - foam extended body parachute size 8 - 12 4. March Brown Emerger size 8 - 12 5. Grey Fox - Comparadun and/or Parachute size 10-14 6. Grey Fox Emerger size 10-14 7. Sulphur Comparadun and/or Parachute size 14-16 8. Sulphur Emerger size 14-16 9. Iso-Brown Drake-Whatevertheheckitis (pheasant tail tail, pheasant tail body,Deer Hair post, Brown and Griz hackle Parachute) size 10-12 10. Yellow Stimulator - sizes 10 through 4 11. Little Yellow Stone (caddis style tie) - sizes 16 - 20 12. Ants - crickets and Hoppers These are just the dry's - I'd add the green weenie - an egg and a caddis pupae to this list if more than 12 was allowed. BCT Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cheech 0 Report post Posted November 28, 2016 1 - Grumpy Frumpy... Yellow/Red with Cree hackle 2- Articulated Trout Slider - White Gold 3- Belly Scratcher Minnow - Chub color and the good Gammy bait hook 4- Complex Twist Bugger - Olive with a copper cone 5- Cheech Leech - Any color, any time. 6- Mongrel Meat - White and pasty like John Stockton 7- Stoneflopper - Tan 8- Cinnamon Toast Ant - depending on the season, this might be closer to the top 3 9- Butt Head - Stimmy simplified with all the right flash in all the right places. 10- Duracell Jig - It just plain hunts 11- Bunny Midge - Yes... sometimes you need to fish a size 30 12- Rapala X-rap - white. No, I don't fish it on a fly rod. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tidewaterfly 0 Report post Posted November 28, 2016 Cheech, I'm also a big fan of the X Raps, primarily for LM bass & Striped Bass and I don't fish them with a fly rod either! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flat Rock native 0 Report post Posted November 28, 2016 Cheech, I'm also a big fan of the X Raps, primarily for LM bass & Striped Bass and I don't fish them with a fly rod either! X-raps awesome, but avoid barbaric, blasphemy if you tie up a silver & white& grey Zonker; recommend an 8 wgt, floating line wIth 10 lb. flourocarbo leader. If it moves fish on South Fork of Snake River, it will move them elsewhere. Chell, don't write me letters, I secretly use spinning, spincast, & casting rods too, especially if grandkids are fishing. Just sayin... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted November 28, 2016 Nothing but praise from me FRN ... so far! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites