What is your favorite type of fly?

Nymph, Dry, Streamer, Wet fly? And for the sake of conversation, why?

I’m just curious.

hNt

My favorite fly is a dry fly. I just like the delicate type of fishing and watching the fly float through the fast water, ripples or pools and seeing the fish come up and sip it off the top of the water. Although, I have discovered a streamer called a Kreelex which has caught me a fair share of fish.

Probably a soft hackle. Fish it like a nymph, swing it or fish it damp Simply amazing

Dry fly. Don’t cast well, poor wader and can’t read the water so I need all the help I can get.

Regards,
Scott

Dry flies whenever I can, especially hoppers. Its a lot more fun to see the hit than to watch for a subtle indicator move.

I like them all, but nymphs are probably at the bottom of my favorites list. I do like fishing a soft hackle on the swing, though.

Whichever one is catching the fish, and what kind of fish I am after! Most of the time, nymphs and small strramers for bluegills. I love watching the Thingamabobber disappear! For trout, soft hackles are killer at the stocker spots around here.

The LTD Emerger. Because it catches fish. :slight_smile:

Soft Hackles by far. Drys are at the very bottom of the list.

For trout in rivers I will often start with a soft hackle if I don’t know the water (or haven’t been to it in a while) or nothing is showing. However as soon as I see a rise, it is a Rusty Usual size 16 - always looking for a chance to use one.
For bass in lakes - some colour of a WB, depending on whether I am imitating a minnow, leech or crayfish, size 6.

Dry Fly, just love watching the take… Catch about 5 times more fish on soft hackles but when the fish are taking dries life is good.

Eric

A dry fly. I enjoy the feel of casting it and seeing how close and delicately I can alight it to where I wish it to be.
Plus the take of a trout to a dry is exhilirating to me, especially when sight fishing. No other manner of fishing approaches it, in my opinion.

Ditto.

—David

The most successful in its moment. I fish dries, wets, softs, nymphs, streamers, etc.

Dry fly. I just like to watch it do it’s job and it is a bonus when I get to see the fish take a pass at it.

Rocky

Nymph. I seem to catch more fish with them than anything else.

For the freestone rivers and streams in the Intermountain West and Northern Rockies, FEB dry flies bring up the fishies from March / April ( skwalas ), through the spring ( salmonflies ), into summer ( golden stones and hoppers ), and on into fall ( October caddis ). Throw in a handful of midge, caddis, mayfly, and drake dries and you’re good to go.

Fishing to rising fish and sight fishing with dries are just dandy, but I do really enjoy fishing the water with dries. The challenge of finding good holding water, reading it, and bringing up the fishies, especially when you can consistently see them many feet from the fly before they hit it, is tough to beat.

John

I like dries for the same reason as most, the take. I fish a lot of EHC, but my favorite is the Calftail Hairwing Royal Coachman. They’re are cool looking, easy to see and most of all, they work wonders.

Dries for sure

I’m not about numbers, size of the fish, nothing like that. It’s all about the take…

Randy

Big gurgler. Nothing like a big fat snook exploding on a surface fly.