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Grizzly Wulf or wooly bugger. I also tie a nice little fly with grizzly hackle and a neon blue tinsel body that seems to work well for some unknown reason. Tie it on a #14 and it works nice.

I had my best luck with a fly my late brother tied for me, it was I believe called a Green Sedge and I caught about 15 fish in one session with it, a lot were too small but some were good for the frying pan.

My "go to" fly is a Stayner Ducktail with a beadhead. It works really well for dragging behind the float tube. I learned to tie it from the originator in the late 80's. Ruel Stayner is gone now, died in 96, but he was kind enough to teach me to tie and build rods in exchange for sweeping the floors in his little shop. I guess the memories of the ornery guy in the apron and the fact it works keep me tying this one.
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I live in northern Idaho, fish the St. Joe, Clearwater, and little streams around here. In the spring/early summer my best producing fly is a Stimulator, the rest of the year I like brown or olive X-Caddis.

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I do most of my flyfishing n the White River @ Cotter Arkansas so I'm kinda fond of most of Dave Whitlock flies. The Whit Sculpin and the Squirrel Hair nympth are my favorites except for the light cahill hatch every year.

Mostly small streams here in VA. The Royal Coachman gets my vote here, since it was the first fly I ever caught a trout on. You need to really work on it around here. I am not a fan of C&R, when I grew up, you went fishing for a reason, not because there was nothing else to do. Have tried my hand at tying, and do a passable job, even if slow. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> still, I do enjoy it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Elk hair caddis for trout, larger for stealhead around Labor Day on coastal steams. I like beaver ponds, small streams, and of course streams with very little over hanging brush. Yellow bodied caddis for Cascade Range and burnt orange body on the coastal range.

In AK we don't get much trout fishing. My favorite fish to fish for is grayling. They will take about anything that looks like a bug. With grayling there is no point in using a nymph or wet fly. They are fun to catch but they are not the best eating, they have too many bones. My favorite fly to use is an Irristible because they float high and long. I make different variations to them with striped bodies or mixed colors. They look pretty cool.
I like fishing small streams with hip boots or waders so you can fish in the middle of the creek.

Tough to beat a Mickey Finn

I went fishing on the Dechuets and found out what my favorite trout fly is...
An Elk hair Caddis.

Ahem . . . . . .

Close your eyes you purists. . . . . .

I prefer to match-the-hatch -- which is usually a single salmon egg for small streams around here.

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I don't think I could name a favorite-

I like fishing flesh flies because I can watch these very visible flies on the drift- I love seeing the flash of a big bow come out of its hole and nail one!

I also like sight fishing for bows and browns with small egg patterns like beads and globugs- Watch for the white of their mouths open and set the hook. Very fun, frustrating, but I'm a perfectionist and this kind of fishing appeals to me.

Some of the funnest fishing I've ever had was fishing for grayling up in AK with drys. I found nearly every pattern in my box caught fish, but obviously the more buoyant and water resistant, the better.

I'd say my favorite 'drys' would have to be large foam terrestrials, and hoppers- I like catching big fish and these are usually my go to at the right time of year.

AuSable Wulff.

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I love that fly, one of my favorites to tie. Of course I haven't found a Wulff that I DON'T like. I love the Blonde and/or White in a 14-16, and of course the Royal 12-18.

Elk hair Caddis is another fav, along with Muddler.

Something about the Wulff patterns that just seem "buggy" and appeal to the fish. I've caught my nicest fish on the AuSable Wulff. Two of them I caught on flies tied by Fran Betters of Wilmington,NY- the originator of the AuSable Wulff pattern. But the real credit goes to Lee Wulff for coming up with "Wulff" patterns in the first place. Fran just put his local spin on it and came up with a real winner. Nice guy too. I love going to his shop.

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The bluegills around here seem to prefer something with yellow in it as opposed to white. They aren't too picky, though, in my experience.

For trout, I love to fish parachute ant patterns. They almost never fail me, despite whatever else may be hatching or otherwise on the surface. Grasshopper patterns are pretty similar in performance.

All around, I like a parachute adams or PMD. Wet flies I like the Hare's Ear or generic "little green nymph".

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I am tying myself a bunch of nymphs for trout <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />and I was wondering what are the best.
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Riley

What they are feeding on................


I like pheasant tails, cooper johns, serendipty, and might was well through in some prince nymphs, and Lafontaine sparkle pupa.

I will sometimes use the PT's and Prince patterns in larger sizes (12-14), but majority of nymphs are in the 18-20 size. Some 22's and some 16's also.

P.S. I am far from a dedicated nymph fisherman. In fact I don't enjoy it that much, so I don't do it that much.

Unless there is no other way than adding some weight and a strike indicator, I tend to use nymphs as droppers on my top water patterns.

Lake and pond fishing I will use nymphs by themselves, with no indicators and an intermediate or type II sinking line.

Riley, there must be a typo there, it says you're tying nymphs??????

Did you get the point of wet flies, or are you just gonna sell 'em? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

A guy could tie a variety of sizes/colors/weights of pheasant tail nymphs and be in the ballpark on most trout water in my neck of the woods. One of the many peacock-bodied patterns, (Zug Bug, Prince, etc.) can be deadly. Peacock seems to be like a magnet to trout.

I almost always have a bead-head nymph of some sort tied on my leader. I have even been accused of trying to get enough floatant on a bead-head to fish it dry, but that was a lie! My fly box would definitely not float if it went overboard, due to the number of beads inside.<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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