What is your "Comfort Fly"?

[NJTroutbum]

I think we all have at least one of them. It's that pattern that seems to more-often-than-not save an otherwise fishless day. And regardless of whether it's time on the water, or sheer happenstance that brings it success, each time a fish raises to it the position within your psyche is more deeply ingrained. That fly for me is the Penns Grannom. The pattern is one of my own that over the years has grown to be a favorite when confidence is low.

What is your "Comfort Fly"?

You don't have to be a fly tyer to have one.


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[zaxaca]

It's an olive wooly bugger on my home waters. My Colorado trips are most productive with an Adam's on top or a BHPT soft hackle below.

I think we all have at least one of them. It's that pattern that seems to more-often-than-not save an otherwise fishless day. And regardless of whether it's time on the water, or sheer happenstance that brings it success, each time a fish raises to it the position within your psyche is more deeply ingrained. That fly for me is the Penns Grannom. The pattern is one of my own that over the years has grown to be a favorite when confidence is low.

What is your "Comfort Fly"?

You don't have to be a fly tyer to have one.


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[planettrout]

Probably, for Trout, either one of these...they ALWAYS work...




PT/TB

[ScottP]

Since PT beat me to the punch I'll go with my #2 option - CDC & Elk




Regards,
Scott

[Thomas]

No pic but a bead head zugbug in.#14-16.

[holensum]

Right now it the Griffiths Gnat. Seem to catch something with it every time I use it.

[CaseyP]

Sawyer nymph--copper wire and pheasant tail. looks exactly like a mayfly nymph. works.

[hap]

I fish way too many different species under way too many different conditions to pick just a half-dozen "comfort" flies...

[hairwing530]

I'll fish anything tied in a parachute configuration, but my "go-to" fly is an Adams, hands down. Tied traditionally or as a 'chute, it's Michigan-born and bred, and holds down the most slots in my boxes...

Jerry, aka hairwing530

[anglerdave]

If we're talking about trout then it would be a size 16 Pink Squirrel Nymph.