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bead head pheasant tail
viagra caddis
bead head hares ear
midge
griffith gnat
bead head prince nymph

Is this for men who can no longer bring themselves to use a Green Weenie?

-Shawn

A perfectly timed thread!

I have been scowering my available resources of late to find a selection of flies that I might be able to put together before I get out to a stream to flick my first fly around. Although I am sure some of the flies mentioned will require a little more effort to use correctly for a beginner, though I will be monitoring this thread intently!

Joel.

Hey Shawn, I think the viagra caddis is for those who have a curly worm that needs to be straightened out.

(Taxon, now there's nothing naughty here: Shawn has a weenie fly of his own design, the C.W.)

Parachute adams
Parachute hopper
PT flashback BH
Hare's Ear BH flash back
wooly bugger

Well said, Louis, though I resent your reducing my Curly Worm to a limp Sinking Inchworm - that caused a droop in my attitude, so to speak.

-Shawn

Couldn't resist the joke, Shawn. Head out to catch a few browns and bows in the spot we discussed--that'll bring your spirits right back up.

I didn't mean precisely that my spirits were down, but I suppose that is a necessary consequence...

Nevertheless, I will try to follow your sage advice. I'll let my wife read your suggestion. You are a doctor, aren't you, Louis?

-Shawn

Yes I am Shawn, and that's my prescription. You may even tell your wife that it's a medical emergency and you must follow Dr.'s orders or suffer dire consequences.

Now, for my 6 flies to bring this thread back in line:

Elkhair Caddis
Adams Irresistible
Foam Beetle
Beadhead Walt's Worm (or Hairy Honeybug)
Sinking Inchworm (honeybug or not)
Muskrat cress bug

I assume from the challenge post that there's no floatant, hence this choice for dries.

Here are my six choices (in no particular order)
elk hair caddis, tan #16
hairwing royal coachman #12
parachute adams #14
gold-ribbed hare's ear #14
picket pin #10
muddler minnow #8

Black BH Wooleybugger #8
Olive BH Wooleybugger #8
Black WB #10
Olive WB #10
Marabou muddler #10
Carter's bug #8

How about just one fly?If I can't find wild brookies with a bLK BH WB....there's probably none to be found?

I'm just bumping this back up due to a question in another thread.

Baetis89,

It is said that those crooked #2 worm hooks can really cause damage to trout because of the hook geometry. I stopped using them years ago base on reading about how some trout were impaled so deeply that they were bledding profuselty. Hopefully your comment is meant to be amusing and you aren't out there singlehandedly decimating the MT wild trout poulation with your snag hooks.

My six flies are all presented with my 13' centerpin rod and my Islander reel;

Live stonefly nymph (on #16 TMC 100)
Live caddis fly pupa (same as above)
Live dragonfly nymph (same as above)
Live burrower nymph (if available)
#16 BH pheasant tail
#18 BH tan caddis pupa

In a small Western Creek I would use the following:

1. Red Copper John with Rubber Legs
2. Baetis (BWO) Emerger
3. Pink Albert Emerger
4. PMD sz. 18-20 Dun
5. Dave's Hopper (Yellow)
6. Grey Adam's sz. 20

Best six of my entire life, not necessarily in order:

1)Elk-hair caddis;
2)White Wulff;
3)Royal Wulff;
4)Adams;
5)Woolly Bugger;
6)Killer Bass Fly.

These are my six go-to flies, cold waters or warm waters.

There's my 2 cents worth.

Jonathon

Let's see, survival flies?

vernile worm
sucker spawn
black wooley bugger
white marabou streamer
irresistable
all white may fly and some coloring pens

I'd choose the following:

Adams Parachute

Hares ear parachute

Olive Elk hair caddis

Robo PT

Partridge & orange

BH Black Wooly Bugger

Good picks their Flyjunkie. Welcome to the forum.

JAD

Mine would be:

Gold ribbed Bead Head Hares Ear
Bead Head Pheasant Tail
Parachute Adams
Wooly Bugger
Zug Bug