my one fly would be a black ant ,wet or dry
make a rod, catch a fish
Mine is a hare’s ear tied by the waterside,
can be made to imitate anything, float or sink
Roy
black #10 wooley bugger - wet
deer hair floater I made up - dry
olive-bodied grizzly hackle was a close 2nd as was a yellow humpy for dry
well, ive changed my mind…make it a 16 h & l variant…since they say it was president eisenhower’s favorite…
Warren Pond Special or an IPW…
Oct Woods
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I’d go with a soft hackled version of a phesant tail. Size 18. With a little floatant it can be fished dry and a few snips can turn the hackle into a more presentable dry immitation.
This is great for us beginners. I am making a table of the voting. So far we have four wooly (woolly, wooley, wolly) bugger votes and two SHWAPF votes. All the rest are singles. Can’t wait for the rest of the voting to know which flies I should learn to tie.
Leadwing Coachman wet fly, size 12 or 14.
zebra midge
I have an entire box of Pheasent tail variations, various hook types, and sizes- bh, weighted, unweighted, soft hackle, floating… I use that box more then any other, sometimes catching fish through all stages of a hatch
Does this count as one pattern? 
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One fly?
I am too inexperienced to hazard a very intelligent guess, but, at this point, the black ant has served me well in warm water & in the river for brown trout.
Mike
soft-hackle pheasant tail
My choice would have to be Murray’s Strymph. This fly has saved many a day for me in the past 3 years.
Warren
I’d have to say the Universal nymph. I’ve caught more trout on this nymph then any others and have pasted it on to some friends and they say it is there goto fly also when others don’t work or they start with it and fish it all day long. Later Matt if anyone wants to see it goto globalflyfisher .com and you can find it there.
To each there own !
Gray Ghost. Seems to be my “Go-to” pattern.
Eric “nighthawk”
Mine would be my variation of Reuel’s Dr Bob. I tie one called the Badger Bob and have managed to take trout, smallmouth, rockbass, and more chubs and suckers than I care to remember. Plus… many, many sunfish and a few catfish. Seems to work great where there are small to medium sized crayfish.
Mike
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I would cheat:
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A size 14 Ausable Wulff, candy to a brown trout, and irresistable to a native brookie.
Easy, A size 20 Griffith’s Gnat
(This is hard!) OK… # 12 BH Prince…Depending on what October Woods can tell me about IPWs and brookies and browns…I know what it’ll do to rainbows. (Then again, I might go to my own version of the IPW just to spite Fred.)