Home Forums Fishing Flyfishing For Rocky Mountain (dry) flyfishermen, what's your favorite pattern for high mo

Kind of a quick survey here .....

For those who are fond of catching pan-size high mountain brookies, rainbows or cutthroats with your favorite popular dry fly patterns .....

What are your two most favorite dry fly patterns!!??

Also on what size of a hook?

THANK YOU!

Small hoppers on a size 8 hook, Sparkle Dun on a size 16 and Parachute Adams size 16-18...

Royal Coachman, but usually if fish wet flies in the mt. streams...

At the right time a gray-hackle yellow can be awesome on brookies. At least that's true where I fish anyway.

Parachute Adams, but mostly I try to wear out gold ribbed hare's ears.

Royal Wulff or Yellow Stimulator



ddj

#12 or 14 Stimulator or Adams Wulff same sizes.

Grey Hackle Yellow and Adams.

16 red or yellow humpy, I like to tie them with a sparkle wing tied trude style.

Thanks fellas! Many good answers. didn't know there were so many Adams versions.

Now ..... If I can change my question a little

What 3 choices besides the Hare's Ear nymph would you choose if putting a suvival kit together

with a minimalist fishing kit**? (and brookies are not the main species of trout).

** If you're willing to answer this too, what is your #1 choice of a spinner for all mountain trout, not just brookies (altho brookies ARE my favorite). cheers!

Elk Hair Caddis, Parachute Adams, Woolly Bugger, nothing more, nothing less...

I would add a Wooly Bugger to my previous suggestions. As to a spinner: I would select a fly called the Pistol Pete. It can be tied as a Wooly Worm or Wooly Bugger with a propeller at the nose that acts as a spinner. Best of both worlds!

Pistol Pete colour choices would be all yellow with a gold spinner,Yellow and red with silver spinner, all black with silver spinner, olive/brown with gold spinner....you get the idea.
Very old and effective pattern developed in the West

Thanks guys! I had thought of the Elk Hair caddis.

How is a Parachute Adams different from a reg Adams? The wing material?

I have seen the Adams w/ a yellow egg sack, but doubt that has anything to do with my question.

I don't fly fish yet, so would be relying on spin fishing skills w/ or w/o a clear bobber.

And are the single Renegade or Mosquito patterns any good?

Cheers!

Starting to sound like the Magnificent 7 with a couple of small addtions.

magnificent 7? cool! was unaware till now.

#14 Adams Trude & #16 Red or Yellow Humpy

Stimi Chew Toy size 10-14 assorted colors

That is one wicked lookin Stimulator!

If you have the Hare's Ear, I would add a Beadhead Pheasant Tail, Beadhead Prince Nymph, and a Wolly Bugger.

I have always liked using a small silver Mepps or a Panther Martin.


ddj

By the way, I have been in many areas that call the Beadhead Prince nymph, "bait". It works really well.


ddj