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How many of the Hottest flies here do you use?
Which is your favorite of the 25?
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How many of the Hottest flies here do you use?
Which is your favorite of the 25?
I use or have used all but six, as for favorites all but six:D
They sure are good looking well tied flies shown and those that I have tied and used are productive...
Steve Molcsan
Len -
Since these are the "best selling" flies and I don't buy any flies at all, I'm off the hook.
Out of the 25, I do like and use pheasant tail nymphs, and I have used a modified version of the Tungsten Zebra Midge but replaced it with a simpler and more effective midge larva ( for the waters I fish ) and a simplified version of the Copper John.
If F & S did a survey on the "best catching" flies tied by people who tie their own, they might surprise Umpqua with the results.
The problem for the companies that sell flies commercially is that they can't charge $1.75, or whatever, for a fly that obviously incorporates ten to twenty cents in a hook, thread and materials and takes a few minutes to tie. So "less is more" is anathema to the commercial tiers, and a lot of great flies will never make it to a list of "best selling" flies.
John
I didn't know how limited my horizons were. I tie and use only five of the twenty-five favorites, the stimulator, crystal bugger, beadhead hare's ear, pheasant tail and the San Juan worm. Boy, am I humiliated. 8T :)
I have caught fish this past year on four of those, and in the past on three others, and on variations of one or two others (for instance, I don't think a zebra midge needs a tungsten bead, or even A bead). The only one of the 25 I use to any extent is the san juan worm, and that accounts for maybe 3-4% of my fish in a year. And the other three I used, maybe another 1-2%.
Newest and hottest flies? MARKETING!
The flies I use now work just fine, thank you.
San Juan worm, copper john, zebra midge, crystal bugger, pheasant tail nymphs are the only ones I use, but then again I want flies that catch fish not fisherman.
P.S.
There are few that I might make a place for in my "Might as well try it, nothing else seems to be working" fly box.
One, the X-Caddis. Not a lot of hopper action around here and I don't fish flies with beads. Doesn't leave a lot, does it?
I have but one of the top 25 sellers, Charlie Craven's Juju Baetis.
These are the exact same 5 I tie and use from this group.
I must say, though, that the purple Psycho Prince looks AWESOME! I am definitely trying that one out.
For anyone out west, if you haven't tried it, Lance Egan's Rainbow Warrior is a pretty renknowned fly for the Provo and Green Rivers in Utah. It's a killer!