mikechell 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2017 I am 98.387% sure that 82.4837% of you are 99.9938% full of crap !!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bimini15 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2017 100%. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bryon Anderson 0 Report post Posted January 17, 2017 I'll put it this way -- if I was to limit myself to a single material (other than hooks and thread), it would be zonker strips ("bunny strips", "rabbit strips", whatever people call them). If I was allowed only 5 materials (again, other than hooks and thread), I'd go with the aforementioned zonker strips, plus marabou, chenille, saddle hackle and rubber legs. I'd be willing to bet my lunch money that there aren't too many places on Earth where you couldn't get something to bite using just what you can make with those materials. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
epzamora 0 Report post Posted January 19, 2017 it seems like most of these material suggestions are for subsurface flies. fantastic. most successful method. if you're fishing in the mountains for trout, you could throw in a $4 clump of elk hair too. that and thread will make you elk hair caddis flies, my most successful dry fly in the california sierra eric fresno, ca. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrLogik 0 Report post Posted January 22, 2017 My favorite material is peacock herl. If I had to choose only one material to make a fly for catching fish, it would also be peacock herl. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
swampsinger 0 Report post Posted January 25, 2017 I like flytire's list, started tying about a year ago and have 97.32% of the list acquired a bit at a time. I also have goose biots and rabbit strips. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
redietz 0 Report post Posted January 27, 2017 For trout flies, it's probably partridge (legs, tails, wings and collars on wooly buggers), pheasant tail and peacock herl. Same here, except I don't tie woolly buggers (at least not for trout.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
j8000 0 Report post Posted January 27, 2017 Duck wings lately Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyty1 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2017 I guess it would have to be grizzly hackle - both rooster and hen. Seems like I can use one or the other in almost every fly I like to tie and fish. I was able to stock up on all of my tying staples back in the 90's (when prices were much more reasonable). I'd like to see prices for juvenile grizzly hen capes back in the $5 to $8 range - how did they become $25 to $30? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dave G. 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2017 I guess it would have to be grizzly hackle - both rooster and hen. Seems like I can use one or the other in almost every fly I like to tie and fish. I was able to stock up on all of my tying staples back in the 90's (when prices were much more reasonable). I'd like to see prices for juvenile grizzly hen capes back in the $5 to $8 range - how did they become $25 to $30? When I was growing up a bottle of soda was $.10 out of a machine or $.08 out of the water bath cooler at Dah Dah's Corner Market and you got $.03 back when you returned the bottle. A Ring Ding $.25. I made about $35 a week in actual wage on my 108 customer paper route and at 14 went to work part time at minimum wage which was $1 an hour and they took taxes out of it, I was better off with my paper route, with tips included I was way ahead of the job and out free in the world instead of stuck in a stock room. Live and learn. But ya, it's inflation. Today minimum wage is $11 in this state and that bottle of soda in a plastic bottle is $1.08. Hah a brand new 1963 Chevy 4x4 pickup was listed at $2676 and we wondered how anyone could afford one, most folks had 2 wheel drive if they had a truck at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Hat 0 Report post Posted February 2, 2017 For my first 3 years of fly fishing I fished for trout and pan fish and tied only 4 patterns. Hare's ear nymph, pheasant-tail nymph (Troth style with the peacock thorax), elk hair caddis and a standard hackle Adams dry. Start with the materials needed for those and you are off to a great start. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites