What one fly?

[Gunnison_Country]

I'm just curious here...if you had to choose one fly to fish for an entire calendar year, what fly would you choose? I live and angle in Colorado's Gunnison Valley and I would choose a Pat's Rubberlegs Stonefly Nymph. Specifically a size 8 chocolate & black version. This nymph catches fish from mid-February all the way through mid-November and easily catches most of my fish each fishing season. If I'm nymphing, at least one of my flies is always a Pat's Rubberlegs. I'm interested what fly you would fish if you had to choose only one for an entire year?

[smij]

#10 olive BH Krystal Bugger.

[okflyfisher]

pine squirrel zonker crosses over to many different species

[DaleW]

I'd have to go with the Tenkara style ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOXiwrN6OJg

[James Smith]

To answer that question probably calls for some clarification as to what species of fish a person is targeting. Living in the South, I prefer warmwater fishing over traveling to the mountains of North Georgia to fish for stocked trout. My go-to pattern for large bluegill and bass is an all black leech pattern tied with a bit of black rabbit fur or Arctic Fox fur depending on the size of the hook and wrapped with a black seal fur dubbing brush. Catches fish all year round and does extremely well on trout when I do make the trek to the mountain or fish the Chattahoochee river in closer to Atlanta.

Jim Smith

[Lotech]

Lately, I've been hung up on the Spider Soft Hackle. In particular the Partridge and Orange. It's fishable almost year round, wet or dry, for trout or panfish.
Partridge & Orange.jpg

[tailingloop]

Chartreuse over white Clouser Deep minnow on a size 4 hook. About 3 inches long. Will take more than 25 species of freshwater and saltwater fish within 50 miles of my home ranging from big bluegill to yellowfin tuna. Fish it year round.

[ScottP]

If I had to fish only one fly for a calendar year, I’d skip that year and take up stained glass again. Fishing one fly for more than an hour takes just about all my willpower; tying the same fly over and over is a level of Hell Dante never dreamed of. Sorry, but I have too much fun experimenting to tie myself down to limitations like that.

Regards,
Scott

[biker1usa]

Personally I would go with a size 8 or 10 Beadhead Thin Mint anywhere.

[Vinny]

I've been taking a lot of fish on a Brown Caddis Emerger (basically a Bead Head Pheasant Tail with a gray Krystal Dub collar):
http://www.charlesmeck.com/a20030800.html

I don't know why it is called a Brown Caddis Emerger, but it sure does work when mayflies are around.