Royce asked about minimalist tackle.
Now I ask about your (just one) minimalist fly box.
Anyone here uses just one?
In that case, for the brave ones...which is your list of flies inside that box for a day-long trip? (trout fishing)
Minimalist box
Royce asked about minimalist tackle.
Now I ask about your (just one) minimalist fly box.
Anyone here uses just one?
In that case, for the brave ones...which is your list of flies inside that box for a day-long trip? (trout fishing)
Minimalist Box
Buggers in black and olive. (#
Grey Ghost Streamer (#8-10)
Adams (12-16)
Humpies, black red, yellow (12-14)
Wulffs, royal, white, grizzly, blonde or ausable (12-16)
Rusty spinners (14-16)
Generic mayflies in cream, tan, brown, black and olive (12-16)
Sulpher or PMD's (14-1
EHC in tan,olive,brown, grey, and black (14-1
Griffith's Gnats
Black,grey and cream midges
Pheasant tail nymphs
Hares Ear Nymphs
AP Muskrat nymphs
Caddis larva and pupa
Stimulators in black, yellow, olive
Stonefly nymphs in colors to match Stimulators.
Have a variety of styles where appropriate, parachute, catskill, comparadun and this box will fish 98%. Throw in some soft hackles and wets too.
...One small fly box, 3" X 5"
Three or four each... in sizes 12, 14, 16, and 18 randomly
elk hair caddis, blue winged olive, adams in a couple colors, zug bugs, with & without bead heads
pheasant tail nymphs in a couple colors, wooly buggers in maybe three colors and sizes,
san juan worms in a couple colors, black ants, some soft hackle spider imitations,
a couple copper johns, maybe a couple dark & light small drys....
........like something I read here says....90% of what a trout eats is less than 3/8 " long and brown......
.....................ModocDan
Wizard...mmm...is that just one box? I mean, seems to be a big one!
OK, I'm also a brave one:Originally Posted by Rocketfish
Mid-size box, river fishing to (...):
2 Olive Matukas
2 Tan/ white Clouser Minnows
6 ELH #14
2 Griffith Gnats #20
6 Adams #16
3 Pheasant tail BH nymph #16
3 Prince nymph BH #12
2 MadamX #8
4 Partridge & Orange soft hackles #14
R.
One Box?
Oh yes can easily get that in one two sided C&F (style) med box. Put a leaf in the box and you can get a lot more in. Add terestrials, more nymphs, and specialized dries. I can fit the box in the pouch on my waders, no vest needed.
Two spiders, size 14, one yellow, one olive, and two caddis, one big , one small, both tan with white wings ... and I'm good for the day.
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
One Perrine model #66 fly box with a variety of Catskill wet and dry flies according to their emergence dates. A few Adams (no one should ever be without a few Adams). Black and tan caddis, BWos. Maximum 60 flies. Dark Cahill wet is my go to fly. It hardly ever lets me down.
rw
Last edited by Royal Wulff; 05-06-2010 at 06:57 PM.
"The value of trout is simply that they exist" <Frank Weisbarth>
Here is what I would carry, in a small 15 Compartment box:
6- #16 LTD Sulfurs
6- #14 Blonde Elk Hair Caddis
6- #18 Blue-winged Olive Haystack
6- #14 May Haystack
6- #14 Light Cahill Thorax
6- #14 Huntington March Brown
6- #16 PMD Thorax
6- #18 Griffiths Gnat
6- #18 Trico Spinner
6- #18 BLG Caddis Larva
6- #14 Gold RIbbed Hare's Ear Nymph
6- #16 Beadhead Pheasant Tail Nymph
6- #12 Pine Creek Nymph
6- #14 Beadhead Squirrel nymph
3 doz X-caddis in 12, 14, and 16. I'm good to go!!
Jeff
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