Favorite fly

[Wild_Trouter]

Yellow Stimulator, Atomic BHPT, Golden Retriever.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

I'm so done qualifying answers to questions like this.
EHC. Yeah yeah. Nymphs blah blah blah. My favorite fly is still the EHC.

 

[caddisflyer]

Here is a good fly that works well wet and dry.... Griffiths Gnat

 

[WWKimba]

Any fly a fish accidently swallows while swimming around!

Kim

 

[cuboodle]

Dry: Comparadun various colors/sizes that match what's coming off
Terrestrial: Quick sight beetle
Nymph: Brassie
Streamer: Olive bugger with some flash

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

I'll vary size, parachute (or no), or hackle setup but it's usually it's an Adams - especially when I have no idea what bugs are coming off. #2 will usually be a BWO of some size or sort unless I'm on Pine or Little Pine in the spring, when I'll use a Slate Drake first. If I see anything yellow flying, I'll use a Light Cahill - the best feature for that one is I can actually see it in almost all conditions.
I can't recall the last time I used a wet fly or annelid (as my boys like call worm imitations). Nothing under water is what I would call a favorite - necessity maybe.

 

[WWKimba]

My ACTUAL favorite flies are 2X2's. I love tying them and fishing with them.

Kim

 

[falcon]

Dry Fly: Baltz para nymph
Nymph: Guides choice hares ear.

Baltz ties the Para nymph with the parachute hackle concave up so the fly sits lower in the water as opposed to a traditional parachute tied concave down. He likes hares ear for the body and ties it with a Anthon shuck. Another tier uses chocolate brown dubbing on his parachute floating nymph

 

[salmo]

Mine has always been a split tail adams with a hen hackle and cut to ride flush in the film - size 16.

 

[Facemelted]

Split Wing CDC dries with varying threads for the body.
Micro Quill Body Perdigons with tinsel thoraxes
Klinks
Any Spider pattern.

 

[Bamboozle]

Favorite to me implies the one I tie on the most often when not hatch matching.

For me that is either a Flashback Bead Head Gold Ribbed Hares Ear or a Bead Head Prince Nymph.

On the surface it's a tan Elk Wing Caddis. or a foam beetle.

 

[edword02]

Its a toss up for me depending on the species but the strikes that you get on a slumpbuster are hard to beat. Warmwater its the gurgler for the same reason. Love the strikes! Can't get that with a PT

 

[shakey]

My favorite fly is the Maurice, designed by Matt Boyer.
Originally brown, I tye it in all colors,wet , and I also do a dry version.

If forced to choose a nymph, it would probably be a prince, because you can fish it like a wet.

 

[WWKimba]

My favorite fly is the Maurice, designed by Matt Boyer.
Originally brown, I tye it in all colors,wet , and I also do a dry version.

If forced to choose a nymph, it would probably be a prince, because you can fish it like a wet.

I know that Matt is famous for his streamers - is this also a streamer pattern?

Kim

 

[fly_doggie]

My favorite is the Elk Hair Caddis. Caught more fish in more places with it than any other fly. I do have a soft spot in my heart for the Sulphur. It is the first fly I was able to "match the hatch" with lo those many years ago - on Fishing Creek near Benton.

 

[Billems]

adams, chucks caddis variant, partridge and orange wet fly.

 

[NittanyBearcat]

Toss up between the clouser minnow and beadhead pheasant tail nymph. I probably end up fishing one or the other almost every time I’m out and have more success with them than any other flies.

 

[laurelrun]

BH Sexy Walts Worm. I can tie em in seconds, and they just catch fish. So I don't care how many i bust off in the bushes or on bottom.

 

[Dr.J 1952]

The last three years mine has been a Euro fly, a Red Dart. I've caught some big trout on it, trout on a wild trout stream and even caught a 30" steelhead on it. I use it both Euro nymphing and regular nymphing with a strike indicator.

 

[shakey]

I know that Matt is famous for his streamers - is this also a streamer pattern?

Kim

Yes, def works as a streamer and a weamer in large sizes.
I do tye it in a size 6 as a streamer