Top 10 flies.
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What are the top 10 flies you ALWAYS carry in your fly box?
This is your no matter where I am or where I am going flies. I am talking about trout we are going after – but all fish and types of water are welcome but please specify. These are your go to bugs. This is a great learning tool for everyone who is just getting started or who’s been doing it forever. All of us are always learning this game and this is a great way to learn. If you have pictures… great, especially for those odd patterns. I know that some of you have those dont ask dont tell patterns – You can keep those undisclosed secrets. But what are the other other patterns.
I am going to average the top flies out and paint the top 10 to get started on some artwork – I am trying to rebuild an illustration portfolio. If you are a warm water, salmon, flats, salt or blue water fisherman, I really do not want to exclude you. I am really interested to see what you post as well. I’ll work on those paintings after getting the trout top 10 done.
Trout Box
Adams
BWO
Elk Hair Caddis
B/C Hopper
Pheasant Tail Nymph
Hairs Ear Nymph
Soft Hackle (Partridge and Orange/Partridge and Yellow)
Slumbuster
Stimulator
Parachute Ant (Red and Black) added later because I can’t count!Striper Box
Clouser
Clouser
Clouser
Clouser
Clouser
Clouser
Clouser
Clouser
Clouser
Half and Half
;DStriper Box:
Cotton Candy Hollow Fly
Grocery Pollock
Black Snake Fly
Black Deciever
White Deciever
Black Clouser
Chart/White ClouserTrout Box:
Slumpbuster
Split-tail
Adams
BH Hare’s Ear
BWO
Elk Hair Caddis
BH Prince NymphI’ll see about digging up pics of some of the Hollow, Slump, and Split-tail this weekend.
Woolly Bugger X4
Clouser X3
Soft Hackle Nymph (Partridge and Orange is my favorite on a dropper from a bugger)
Some sort of foam sandwich
Pheasant Tail NymphThe bugger and the clouser are universal go to flies for just about any situation.
To quote one of my fishing buddies……….
“It’s a freakin’ BOOGER! I don’t give a damn what the Orvis catalog says!
1) Egg sucking leach
2) BH Pt Nymph
3) 6mm rootbeer bead
4) Flesh fly
5) Thunder Creek
6) White egg sucking zonker
7) Stimulator
8) Black conhead wooly bugger
9) size 22 griffiths gnat
10) 8mm salmon beadThis is kind of a tough one, but I think I have finally narrowed it down.
1) Elk Hair Caddis
2) Parachute Adams
3) Royal Wulff
4) Golden Stone
5) Parachute Ant
6) Parachute Grasshopper
7) Pheasant tail nymph
8) San Juan Worm
9) sparkle pupa (caddis)
10) Big Horn BuggerFor pictures Kevin go to http://www.montanafly.com
Joel
In no particular order
1) Adams
2) Elk Hair Caddis
3) Usual
4) Royal Wulff Stimulator
5) PT Nymph
6) HE Nymph
7) Wooley Bugger
8) Scud
9) Griffiths gnat
10) HopperThe Zak and RAD are south african flies? any pictures?
Both are South African flies, so is the Red Eye Damsel…
ZACK
They are really effective patterns, I cant find a step by step, I will try do one this weekend…
First one tied by the originator…
instructions – http://www.flytyingworld.com/PagesE/egmoreflies3.htm#Zak%20Nymph%20-%20BeadheadRAB
When you take them out the vice, they must quiver and shiver on your hand, hydra stop them overnight, but then no floatant on the river…
Fished with a dead dread drift, fish cant resist…this is the poodle variant and slightly over dressed, I like them smaller…
Coch-de-leon variant, or Haylo RAB, great fly…
Seqence = http://www.flytalk.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=3450The RAB is crazy. What size hook is that on. It iso buggy looking I want to eat it.
Said like a true soft hackle fisherman. 🙂
RAB is an acronym for????
Did anyone get it????
Rough And Buoyant…
Or
Red Assed Bastard…Even the originator of the fly had to make a little story. The first published account of it was in a very well-to-do publication called the Piscator, the Cape Piscatorial Societies journal, it has been published for a good couple of years, and in the 50’s when Tony Biggs wrote about his fly, he just called it a RAB, in the next issue he was asked to give the full name, thus Rough And Buoyant… but those in the know, and knowing Tony, a sailor by heart, Red Assed Bastard was the original name…
It works because it rides high, shivers and quivers, and you can see it immediately… also, there is a theory about insects appearing red in the afternoon sun.
Do yourselves a favor, just tie a few and give them a bash… any trout stream, anytime, anywhere…
And post your result…
Red Assed Bastard…
Great fly.
A little different than the red ass I know – red ass soft hackle (another great fly by the way) But there is a big family of red ass that all kind of stem from the royal coachman flies. I’ve seen multiple variations of this fly.
There are times where I think you could just wrap a little peacock hearl on a hook and you would catch something.
Great post so far…
Its a little off topic but have to ask about the 3. Klinie also. I cannot find anything. I’m glad I know where everyone is from. These list wouldnt make sense. But I am seeing a good top five or six emerge that everyone could fish with daily.
Kind of like Grits and Sweet Tea – Not everyone does exactly the same thing or they might even know what Grits and Sweet Tea is.
Klinie = Klinkhamer Special, sorry typo…
I tie them as a style, different things, for different times…
My favorite is to spin the dubbing onto the thread very loosely, then wind the copper wire through the thorax allowing in the dubbing to fray out nicely… I have watched the shuck of an emerging nymph and it becomes very mobile in the water, I think the dubbing becomes the gills, very mobile… I don’t tie in any “shuck” as I believe the triggers are in the thorax…
Secondly, I only grease the post, so that it floats very low in the water, with minimal turns of hackle…
Lastly, the post is not only your sighting device, it represents the emerging insect, if you watch mayflies emerge, they break out of the wing case, press themselves almost vertically then, as the tail slips out, they put their legs onto the surface, dry their wings for a second and try lift off, pulling their tail free in the process…
I always try tie in at least 5 positive triggers in a fly, here are the 5…
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I’m a striper fisherman through and through, so here goes in no particular order. Unfortunately some of the flies I use don’t have a name that I know. My flies also rotate in and out of favor. At the moment, the flies most likely tied to my line are:
1) Clouser minnow (usually chartreuse over white, but all colors of the rainbows are important)
2) Lefty’s Deceiver (currently having great success with a 6″ green over white)
3) Ray’s fly– a personal favorite
4) Bob’s banger- a terrific Bob Popovic fly
5) Surf Candy
6) Epoxy sand eel– not sure who gets credit for this particular tie
7) Ultra Shrimp- another Popovic fly that looks amazing and catches fish
8) Flatwings in assorted colors– frequently an East Coast Ghost these days
9) September night fly by Ken Abrams. Heck, I know it’s May, but it catches fish
10) Assorted clam worms. I never catch anything with them, but I sure carry a lot of them!
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