My choice of pattern is generally dictated by where the Trout are consistently feeding - in the water column. In my experience, that would be in or beneath the surface film…
PT/TB 
Gotta be honest…it’s the dry’s first. My “searching fly” is a dry, Lady’s Fish Finder. It is in the Fly of the Week Archives.
my favorite fly is the one that is catching fish but my favorite method would be dry fly fishing. as been said nothing like watch a trout take a dry.
Wet flies, either soft hackled or winged. They’re by far the most versatile.
I like my fishing partner’s flies. I hate tying flies and if I can talk my partner out of a couple of his then that is a couple I don’t need to tie myself.
Trout: soft hackles…much like a dry fly take in slower waters, slammed like a streamer in the riffles and runs
Bass and Sunfishes: Popper… explosions, vortexes, you get the picture
Temperate Basses: streamers…'cause they eat baitfish for a living
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I love them all, but dries in crystal clear water, where u can watch the fish come up to your fly is one of the best things to experience. But I fish nymphs mostly, and while I have tried stripping streamers through some very fishy deep areas, I’ve never been able to have any luck with a streamer. Only luck with a streamer I’ve had has been dead drifted pine squirrel leeches which resemble a larger nymph more than anything.
Paul
Dry … 
Sub-surface flies are my favorite. That includes nymphs, flymphs, streamers, wet flies, and the occasional dry fly when I drag it under. There isn’t enough dry fly floatant in the world to keep my flies on top.
Loufly
Wets and soft hackles by far best , also fish a streamers
Its soft hackles,flymphs & nymphs & streamers.
When I Nymph fish it’s a Pheasant Tail and when using a dry, it’s a Parachute Adams, They are my go to flies