Which is your #1?
Nymph-nymph:
Dry-dry:
Dry-nymph:
I use em all depending…
I guess MOST used is nymph nymph.
Rich
For my style of fishing, it’s NEVER “Dry-nymph”. BUT, could be either of the other two options.
Mark
Most of the time, wet-wet.
Occasionally, dry-wet.
I seldom fish a nymph under any circumstances (although I’ll fish a wet like a nymph.)
Most times nymph/nymph.
Most times it’s wet-wet-wet, once in a great while it’s dry-wet.
REE
Rarely anything other than dry-wet.
Vic
Mostly wet-wet-wet, on rare occasions, wet-wet-nymph, and a few times I’ve tried nymph-nymph (with one weighted and one not). That usually gets me into a mess and throws my limited casting ability into the woods where I can’t find it again for a few days.
I think I’ve tried dry-nymph once in one of our fishing club “clinics”. I’ve not tried it “for real”, but might have a play with it this year when I get back to NZ. I know a few sections of the Wairoa where it might be worth a go.
- Jeff
Certainly depends on the situation, but probably most often wet-nymph or nymph-nymph.
All of the above, plus nymph-streamer. But dry-nymph is probably my favorite.
I use popper / soft hackle combination a lot when fishing warm water for bluegill, crappie, bass, etc.
I use nymph / nymph and softhackle / nymph quite a bit too.
Jeff
Hopper-dropper if they just refuse to bite on top. One of the best rigs I found for fall runners out of Hebgen was spaghetti and meatballs (IPW & egg), although I preferred streamers.
Regards,
Scott
nymph/nymph/wet
dry/nymph
dry/wet
dry/dry
they’re all my favorites. “conditions” dictate the choice
in fact, i do not feel comfortable casting just one fly any more. kind of like buying only one lottery ticket…
In my f/fishing realm it is dry-nymph.
Dry-nymph, with dropper tied to the bend of the dry on a tippet one size down from the tippet on the dry.
Coughlin
Sorry guys, perhaps I wasn’t clear…sorry…which (patterns) combination?
My dry-dry: MadamX-Griffith’s Gnat
My nymph-nymph: Black Kaufmann’s Stone#6 weighted-Prince#16 beadhead
Dry-wet: Chernobyl Ant-Whickham’s Fancy
Most of the time its nymph-nymph(#4 rubberlegs-b.h.p.t.) with the occasional Emerger-Nymph-Nymph(Parasol Emerger-Pheasant Tail-Scud)
Favourite is Dry(Elk Hair Caddis) - Nymph(P.T.), most used is nymph(Hair and Copper) - nymph(P.T.).
For stillwaters it is nymph(Buzzer), nymph(damsel), nymph(Dragonfly).
All the best.
Mike.
wet-wet-wet
but most often
large streamer- small streamer
One that is suitable for the creek / stream / river I am on, and for the section of water that I am fishing at the time.
When you fish a whole bunch of different creeks / streams / rivers over the course of a year, and when each one of those has quite a variety of water to fish, it is impossible to name three “dropper” combinations as the “#1” 's.
If I were fishing only one piece of water and it was uniform structure / current for its entire length and the seasons never changed, I could possibly come up with three “#1” dropper combinations. But I’d be so bored with that situation I’d probably give up fly fishing all together.
John