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When nothing else seems to work, what is your "go to" fly? A friend of mine calls these flies "meat flies" because when all else fails they will put food on the table. I go to a flash back hairs ear nymph with a tungsten bead head, size 16 or 18.
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I know a great fly fisherman who swears by the double bunny.
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Black bead-head Wooly Bugger.
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Assuming we are talking Trout.
Adams parachute when feeding on top (adult or emerger) and a bead head pheasant tail nymph subsurface. This assumes we are talking wild trout. For stockers substitute a prince nymph for the pheasant tail.
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Black or green bead head wooly booger will catch anything that swims. For salt I have caught a ton of species of a green clouser but I'm sure a green booger would have done the job.
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For trout on top: Parachute Adams or Usual. For trout below: Frenchie size 14.
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Woolly buggers are hard to trump.
For top water trout, the Adams is about as good as it gets for an "all 'rounder"; or a March Brown.
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The bugger likely wins for most.
For dries the Elk Hair Caddis or an Adams
For nymphs the pheasant tail or a hairs ear
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Red micro leech or size 18 lightening bug
Top comparadun or griffiths gnat,
As mentioned salt closer olive over white
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The stimulator in a larger size than you would first expect to use. Seems to work well if it splashes down hard on the surface. Sometimes they can make a trout behave like a bass and attack the splashy giant fly!
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looks like the Adams is favored as it is with me. In western MT I have had success with the Grey Hackle Yellow when everything else wouldn't work.
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Soft hackles, particularly a Grouse and Orange or Partridge and Olive as a close second. Tied very, very sparsely.
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I am an extreme rookie, so what do you guys think about the Utah killer bug or crane fly?
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Soft hackles, particularly a Grouse and Orange or Partridge and Olive as a close second. Tied very, very sparsely. These are my favorites, too.
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The bugger likely wins for most.
For dries the Elk Hair Caddis or an Adams
For nymphs the pheasant tail or a hairs ear This will work for most trout waters, year round. When it gets a bit more specialized, a PMD, Caddis and a baetis in some form of a cripple will always pick up the more discriminating fish that may turn down the common flies...
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Top for trout parachute adams. Top for sunfish sponge spider Subsurface for both trout and sunfish a Appalachian pattern called a yellahammer. Bluegills will eat a yellahammer when nothing else works.
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...Bluegills will eat a yellahammer when nothing else works anything. Fixed it.
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The bugger likely wins for most.
For dries the Elk Hair Caddis or an Adams
For nymphs the pheasant tail or a hairs ear This is spot on
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