A question was recently asked on another online site that got me to wondering. The question was, "What are your favorite searching patterns, the flies you tie on when you have no idea or evidence of what the fish are eating?" The site poled a number of guides, authors, and people in the trade and then published the results in three articles, Dry Flies, Streamers, and Nymphs. The top fly in each category was as follows: Dry - Parachute Adams; Streamer - Wooly Bugger; and Nymph - Standard Pheasant Tail.

My question to the forum is, "What is the one fly you would never leave home without to insure you wouldn't get skunked?"