Best five wet flys

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Just a wee survey on your best 5 wet fly in each nation to see if any are world wide.

My five in Scotland

Bibio, Kate McLarne, Black Gnat, Black Spider, PTN, these have never let me down for trout.

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Black Gnat, Soft Hackle Hares Ear, Soft Hackle March Brown (aka March Brown Spider), Hares Ear, Soft Hackle Black Gnat
Joe

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partridge and orange, march brown spider, partridge and pheasant tail (a pattern develops, no?), lead wing coachman, Montreal.

Chuck

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Rivers or stillwater?
Trout or Warmwater?

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Hi Falkirk,

You and others seem to be talking a very loose interpretation of the term “wet fly” so I will take the same liberties. 1. GRHE 2. Nemes-style soft hackles (they’re all pretty much the same) 3. Professor 4. Woolly Worm 5. Beadhead GRHE

If you mean traditional wet flies my choice would be: 1. Professor 2. Alexandra 3. Dark Hendrickson 4. Coachman 5. Light or Cream Cahill

I’m sure that others will disagree. 8T :smiley:

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For me it is:

Hare’s Ear Flymph
Partridge and Green
Black Spider
Little Olive Flymph
Red Hackle

Gordon

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Softhackle Hare’s Ear.
5 of them.
Doug

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For me it’s the following winged wet fly’s:

  1. March Brown (English)

  2. The Captain

  3. Blue Professor

  4. Grizzly King

  5. Dark Hendrickson

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Good collection so far with variou Hares ear’s and various spiders pretty common but keep them coming. Where are the New Zeland an Canadian five? sorry a bit loose with the term wet flys as long as it’s not a lure,

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1 Scottish Silver Butcher #14
2 Stewart black spider#14/16
3 Red Quill #14/16
4 Snipe & Purple #16
5 Greenwell’s Glory #16

All deadly
Roy

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Hmm, what I use and have had reasonable success with here are,

soft hackle patterns:

  1. Hare’s ear and partrige
  2. Water Cricket
  3. spanish needle
  4. woodcock and orange
  5. pheasant tail and partrige

winged wets:

  1. Greenwell’s Glory
  2. Invicta
  3. Royal Coachman
  4. Bloody Butcher
  5. Parmachene Belle
  • Jeff
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  1. partridge and peacock

  2. GRHE

  3. Royal Coachman

  4. Cahill

  5. partridge and orange

  6. When all else fails, I like to drown a sparsely hackled version of the dry fly of the day!

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Leadwing Coachman
Light Cahill
Cark Cahill
Quill Gordon
Partidge & Orange