Since we were all divulging which flies have never worked for us, how about we change it up a bit? What’s your favorite style of fishing, and what’s the fly you enjoy fishing the most?
Streamers in a lake. At times it can be furious fishing. Had one of those times recently at Chopaka Lake in Wa.
I most enjoy the topwater bite. On a lake, river or creek. Hands down my favorite. But, topwater isn’t as productive as throwing streamers for me. Fav fly for topwater is a foam slider and for a streamer it would be a clouser minnnow.
Go catch a fish,
Gary
Well, it’s only been 6 weeks or so since I cought my first fish on a fly but it will have to be the Royal Coachman Dry and a nymph I tied real quick to match a bug I found on the bottom of a rock. That goofy nymph has caught several fish for me. The Royal Coachman has caught a few for me, too.
I have four favorites at the moment. They are the first four flies that see the end of my tippet when I go fishing. They are Baillie’s Black Spider, Red Spider and Dun Spider along with a gray flymph I tied up at Lowell. Those four flies have been very good to me.
REE
I fish a cast of wets (three of them ) 95 precent of the time.
So here goes —Coachman–Hairs ear–Pass Lake —Tellico
I am always swapping them out but this is what I like to start with.
wet
The Blue Wing Olive in different sizes depending on the situation. It always seems to be a go-to no matter what. I still like the orange and grizzly things but I manage lots of fish-to-hand with some size of BWO
Hmm,
My favorite winged wet fly is the Parmachene Belle. It’s been very productive for me, and it’s a fly I’ve fished since childhood, so there are memories that go with it.
That said, I often fish a team of 3 wingless wets, which usually includes a water cricket as one of them.
- Jeff
For tailraces, a cdc comparadun (BWO or Sulphur) with a midge dropper.
For DH, Woolley Bugger
royal wullf
tan thread midge
pheasant tail nymph
elk hair caddis
sponge spider for the 'gills
My favourite ? Would have to be swinging a soft hackle. I was doing that since long befor I knew what it was called.
Reverse Hackle Wing Parachute
A.K.'s Cricket (I don’t think there’s actually an A.K.'s Cricket but it’s tied like A.K.'s Hopper - only in blacks and browns).
Last year it was a clouser, hands down. I caught the vast majority of my big smallies on it. This year however it didn’t produce as well as a wolly bugger or a black eel. Can’t brag much this year as the late season feeding surge just didn’t seem to happen.
Renegade & Elk Hair Caddis
Small stream brookie fishing is my favorite style, the “Usual” dry fly is my favorite. Followed by the Ausable wulff and Ausable bomber.
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River fishing?Dry flying with a Parachute Adams or a Skwalla (Only if the fish are on the rise) --OR?Nymphing with a Stone Fly and a dropper of either a San Juan Worm or a Lightning Bug.
Lake fishing?Woolly Buggers on an intermediate like, working the fly about 90 feet behind my pontoon boat. --AND?Soft Hackles using a floating line.
Larry —sagefisher—
my favorite method of fishing is nymphing. the only fly i ever tie on regularly is a pt wet in various sizes because it can represent many emerging flies. my point fly normally imitates the bugs that are in the water at the particular time of the year i’m fishing.
bruce
not sure if I could choose a ‘favorite’, but if I had to pick one single fly to use in all situations for the rest of my time, it would be the Lefty’s Deceiver
chain bead eyed wooley bugger
Catches everything
I fish mostly subsurface. What ever fly is working for the fish that day.
Rick