Most used/go to flies

[Anonymous]

Pick any random trout river.

[Michael Exl]

I’m going to have to go with other.

I always like to start out with a streamer. Just something that looks like a sculphin, usually a size 4 too. Like they say go big or go home.

[Tim Angeli]

Nymph – flashback hare’s ear, size 12-18 depending on conditions
Dry – stimulator, usually size 12 or 14
Other – streamer, preferably something large, flashy, and articulated.

[Tim Pommer]

1.) #18 Copper John
2.) #18 PT
3.) Some sort of leech pattern.

[Rick Marcum]

I always start with a PT or a Copper John when nymphing…
Royal Wulf for Dries
But my favorite things to use during non-hatch times on most rivers is a streamer.

[David L. Darnell]

has alot to do with the rod I got in my hands and the type of water on my tailwater I’m on. But:

Black Circus Peanut

or

small Black (self invention) similar to a Birds Stonefly.

[patrick mccormick]

Alaska:
Nymph: Size 14 prince nymph beadhead weighted
Dry: Size 10 Orange rubber leg stimulator
Other: Gold Conehead Black Wooly bugger Size 6 weighted a lot

Everywhere Else
Nymph: Size 18 goldhead prince nymph
Dry: size 14 elk hair caddis
Other: Gold Conehead Black Wooly Bugger

[Neal Osborn]

Aaggh, the pressure :-X!  How can any self respecting fly fisher live with only a handful of flies (and yet we all know this is precisely what we do when choosing our go-to patterns). Here are my top nymph/streamer flies for trout. I am about 75% subsurface as go-to in general since my home-waters don’t have a huge number of hatches per se. Notice these are all really really easy and cheap to tie except for the copper John, thus great for go-to status).

Top row, FBFT, Rook’s berry nymph, copper John, lightning bug, trout crack/little red midge.  Bottom row, rainbow wooly bugger (probably my all time favorite), mini-bugger (I tie then on a sz 8 scud hook, killer, and some brown/uggly streamer with legs, various colors but usually just really ugly.

[gavin poppen]

1)Mohair Leach
2)Glo Ball
3)Madame X

[Brett Hoskins]

Saltwater flats flies:

1-seducer in pumpkin seed/motor oil color (first thing I tie on every time)
2-spoon fly/w rattle
3-shrimp fly

Pretty much all I use and sorry guys that I don’t know the “official” names.

[Chris Beech]

I go to a Au Sable Wulff variant in size #14 most of the time.

If I don’t get any rises, I’ll put an olive Seals Fur Scruffy nymph on as a dropper – about #12.

If the grasshoppers are around, I’ll use a Stimulator #12 as the dry, and still hang the nymph underneath.

Here’s my variant on the Au Sable Wulff:

Best Regards,

Beechy

[Eric Weller]

definately a nymph, most likely a copper john or maybe a crystal serrendipity.

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