Fly Advice please

[Severn Wolf]

Right, after a long and arduous few months chasing shadows I`ve decided to spend the rest of the year after trout and grayling.

 

As a bit of a newbie I`ve not got a clue what flies to buy soooooooo............

 

If anyone has any recommendations please list them below.

 

I`m looking to get a comprehensive selection built up to cover all eventualities from ressies to lakes, streams to rivers in both dry and wet.

 

 

Ta in advance for any replies!

[klonker]

Right, after a long and arduous few months chasing shadows I`ve decided to spend the rest of the year after trout and grayling.

 

As a bit of a newbie I`ve not got a clue what flies to buy soooooooo............

 

If anyone has any recommendations please list them below.

 

I`m looking to get a comprehensive selection built up to cover all eventualities from ressies to lakes, streams to rivers in both dry and wet.

Ta in advance for any replies!

 

SW,

 

any good fly shop should be able to help. A basic set might consist of:

 

RIVER

 

Nymphs/Wet flies sizes 18-12:

• Bead-head GoldRibbed Hares Ear - natural and olive
  
• Bead-head Pheasant Tail Nymph (Non-bead-head versions of the above)
  
• Partridge and Orange
  
• Snipe and Purple
  
• Shrimp - olive, olive with hot spot, pink (weighted up to size 8)
  

Dry flies size 20-14:

• Pheasant Tail
  
• GoldRibbed Hares Ear
  
• Tups
  
• Thorax Blue-winged-olive
  
• Ginger quill
  
• Blue dun
  
• Black gnat
  
• Klinkhamer - various colours
  

Reservoir/Stillwater

 

Streamers any legal size:

• Woolly Bugger - unleaded and bead-head - olive, black
  
• Cats Whisker
  
• Boobys - various colours
  
• Humungus - various colours
  
• Minkie
  
• Muddler
  

Wets/Nymphs 14-10:

• Diawl Bach
  
• Corixa
  
• Cruncher
  
• Montana
  
• Epoxy Buzzer - brown, olive, black, red
  
• Daddy
  

Dry flies and Emergers 16-10:

• Shuttle-cock buzzer - various colours
  
• Hopper - various colours
  
• Bobs Bits
  
• Daddy
  
• Hawthorn
  
• Klinkhamer - various colours
  

That would be a reasonable place to start Of course there are thousands of patterns to choose from with variations in size and colour (even weight in some cases) for each pattern What I've listted should cover the bulk of situations. You can build up a collection to suit the watres you fish using these flies as a basic working set of 'tools.'

 

Good Luck

Edited August 30, 2007 by klonker

[Severn Wolf]

Nice one, thanks!

 

Any more folks??? (I`ve got a mate who`s a fly tyer and we`ve come to an arrangement so I can have as many as I want!!!!)

[spug103]

My regular / most reliable catchers are

 

red and white cats whisker

hares ear (silver ribbed)

corixa

olive dun

rubber legged daddy (Sinking)

 

and an orange dog nobbler if times are hard

 

cheers

spug

[five bellies]

Im going to state the obvious Here,

 

 

Two indespencibles during a hatch:

Hawthawn

Mayfly.

 

And any of the Gamult of Damsel nymphs

Edited August 31, 2007 by five bellies

[Sportsman]

A very broad question.

There are a few patterns that I wouldn't want to do without.

 

Dry flies / Emergers

 

Shipmans buzzer in various colours

Hawthorn

Hoppers in various sizes and colours

Klinkhammers

Sparkle Gnat

Small black thing

 

Wet flies

 

Damsel nymph with and without bead and with/without marabou tail

Gold Ribbed Hairs Ear

Pheasant Tail Nymph

Various spiders such as yellow and partridge

Buzzers

More buzzers

Small black thing

Aps bloodworm

Did I mention buzzers?

 

Lures

Yellow dancer

Cats whisker

Almost anything glittery

Blobs

[chuby]

Im going to state the obvious Here,

Two indespencibles during a hatch:

Hawthorn

Mayfly.

 

And any of the Gamult of Damsel nymphs

 

 

I will go along with F B on those.Hawthorn can be damn good fly.Damsel in the various guises also.

Others i like are Cats whiskers,Buzzers,Diawl Bachs,anything fritzy and anything fritzy and extra buzzers

Egg fly :headhurt: can be deadly at times

[Severn Wolf]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, certainly a comprehensive selection there!

[highseas]

i woulnt leave home without a good load or cats wiskers and a teal blue and silver ok its a sea trout pattern but it works on browns and rainbows to also clink hamers and black nats size 18 small but deadly ill post a pic of a deadly home made fly thatl never fail

 

dont forget the ace of spades!!

[Chris204]

Hi,

I am new to AN but thought I would just add to what many of the others have suggested and that would be Hares Ear Nymphs, Gold ribbed Hares Ear Nymphs and for sure Shipman's Buzzers. I am from the States but I am sure that these patterns will work just as well for you. Like everyone else said, there are many patterns to choose from. Good Luck!

 

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