Sitting on the yellow breeches last week after losing my beetle in the mouth of a nice brown, I pulled out my fly box and was shocked at the motley assortment of flies I have (which arose out of years of filling little plastic cups in random fly shops throughout the east (NY, PA, CT) to get the "hot fly" and more often to turn the shopowner a little more talkative.
Anyway, I realized that I need to beef up my foundation of flies (I fish 'em all, nymphs, dries, wets, streamers) so that I know if I hit any river here in the northeast I will have something right.
So I have two questions:
1. fly suggestions for a "complete" N.Eastern fly selection, four seasons, all types (I fish, croton watershed, catskills, delaware river (w. branch), Long Island, a little in Pennsylvania and connecticut).
2. since these will be a lot of flies, but I want good quality, suggestions for where to get what I need (my tying skills or nowhere near up to par for this).