Easiest for me is the wooley bugger. First off, I can see it and fine motor skills are not as important. It also works everywhere.
jed
Easiest for me is the wooley bugger. First off, I can see it and fine motor skills are not as important. It also works everywhere.
jed
1) Foam Ant using the pre-formed "match stick" cylinders. Tie it down, wrap a hackle in the space between the two separated body parts, cut the hackle off the bottom. Two materials, 3 minutes.
2) Palm BWO Emerger
Hook: #16 wet fly hook
Thread: Olive
Tail: Dun hen hackle fibers
Abdomen: Olive Turkey Biot
Thorax: BWO Superfine
Collar Hackle: Dun hen wrapped twice.
Add water, swing downstream.
The 'Usual'
One cheap material (snowshoe rabbit foot),very 'buggy' , floats like a cork
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Last edited by dudley; 04-13-2010 at 01:58 PM.
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart
Boa yarn leeches. Quick to ltie and effective.
Rick
Someone has to say it.
Green Weenie
This is my answer too. The yellow, especially, is my go-to fly for fishing the local ponds, and has been especially effective for fishing at night. Bass, bluegills, crappies, catfish, and grass carp have all fallen for this pattern.Originally Posted by Rick Z
David Merical
St. Louis, MO
Mustad 3906 #14 with a 1/8" bead, .015 lead free wire under the bead. Hareline Hare's Ear dubbing along the hook shank counter wrapped with small gold wire. Gets down quick and the fish seem to like it. My go to nymph on the creek I do most of my fishing.
There is not a much simpler tie than the Zebra Midge and year after year it ends up catching the most trout for me as well. I have tried to fancy up the fly by adding a couple custom items and they usually work fine but I can't say they out fish the simple original.
Any soft hackle pattern. When all you have to do is wrap a body and wind a hackle collar, its a pretty easy fly to tie. In sizes #14-#20 and earth tones they are a great trout fly and in sizes #8-#14 and brighter colors they are a great brim and bass fly. My favorite soft hackle from brim is a size #10, 1X long hook with a chartreuse chenille body and grizzly hackle collar. Gurgle Pops are also very cheap, effective and easy to tie. 8T
The easiest dry fly I tie and fish is the Egg-Laying Caddis. Size #14 hook, ball of bright green dubbing for egg sack, tan bubbing for body, Deer-hair wing - done. Another, almost as simple, would be the X-Caddis - tan Zelon shuck, dubbed body, deer-hair wing.
My favorite easy-tie nymph would have to be the same as KeatonsDad mentioned - the Zebra Midge. Bead, thread wire rib, catches fish like crazy. I like to tie one with a black thread body, chartreuse bead and chartreuse rib.
Kelly.
Last edited by kglissmeyer; 04-13-2010 at 03:51 PM.
Tight Lines,
Kelly.
"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home."
Roderick Haig-Brown, "Fisherman's Spring"
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