What is your easiest fly to tie that is also one of your favorite to fish?

Fly Patterns
21

Easiest? The bread fly that I’ve just developed in the last couple of days.
I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite to fish because I haven’t fished it yet. Besides, it’s a specialty fly with extremely limited application.

22

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

23

  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.

24

The ‘Usual’
One cheap material (snowshoe rabbit foot),very ‘buggy’ , floats like a cork

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25

Boa yarn leeches. Quick to ltie and effective.

Rick

26

Someone has to say it.

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27

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.

28

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.

29

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.

30

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 :slight_smile:

31

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.

32

Gurgle pop, easy to tie and the best warmwater top water pattern I’ve used to date.

Wayne

33

Elk Hair Caddis. (Deer or Elk) Prevailing color. Sometimes I throw in a trailing shuck.

34

Definitely a soft hackle. In different sizes and colors I’ve consistently caught everything from trout to crappie to carp and catfish.

A close second would be my dry fly choice: the good ol’ elk hair caddis.

35

I’d have to agree with Kelly and Keatons Dad. The zebra midge. Catches more fish for me every year and is easy to tie.

Beaver