ok...i posted alot about fly fishing and tying...but thats ok....springs almost here...we need to get it on our minds!! lol..hope ya arent sick of me...im curious and want to have good flys worth tying...but this is just a question....
which is your favortie fly for its looks...i like the royal wullf...i tied one last nite...my first...looks liek the picture! i was and still am happy with it...and goin to try to make another..
and what is your most effective fly for trout in a stream???

mauser06

I've always liked beadheads. With the brass bead for a head, the trout liked them too. I bought a fly tying kit a few years ago, and never have used it, now you're making me want to use it. Thanks a lot Mauser.<img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

You just keep asking mauser!!! Enjoy yourself, there's lots to learn.

Yeah the Royal Wulff is a pretty good choice for looks.......that's a tough one, because I'm a bit drawn to &quot;Classic&quot; Catskill style patterns for a nostalgia sort of reason.

As far as most effective fly for stream trout??.......that's easy. Day in and day out my most effective fly is the nymph of whatever major hatch is active at the time I'm fishing a particular stream. It changes week to week, month to month, but dead drifting a pair of nymphs is pretty deadly.
If you aren't into tying exacting copies of mayfly nymphs, an assortment of &quot;Pheasant Tails&quot; in sizes from #10-#22 will catch a lot of fish.

hmmm gun..u should use it if you fly fish...its fun...and matt i was just talking to my firend...he got into tying coz i did..and stated fly fishing coz i was havin fun with gills on lakes..and he sed he wants to fish a nymph in a creek..but he dont get to trout streams but twice a year if hes lucky...and i sed y go through it...when there only good certian times of the year unless u tie one that versitle...and i jsut tied a pheasant tail tonite for the first time...never looked at nymphs and thought they were too complicated...but i kno more about tying then i thought!! lol

mauser06

my is pretty simple lately (dont ask the guys I go that q as you you might get a different answer LOL).

My tops for salmon dollies/char and sometimes rainbows is a fuschia bunny fly. I always have beads or illiamna pinkies (learned that one the hard way, and flesh patterns, beadhead pheasant tails and hares ears, white scuds, griffths gnats, adult caddis imitations, that just about rounds me out. I do carry a ton of other flies to try on the 'off' days. If there is such a thing <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>!

When I go to a new stream I tie on a bead head gold ribbed hares ear for starters, then if that does not work I will move to the scuds, then a prince nymph or pheasant tail. If I see action near the surface I will tie on an attractor say size 14 and an emerger on the dropper and use the attractor as a strike/drift indicator. As you can tell I do very little pure dry fly fishing

WELL I'M FAIRLY NEW TO FLY FISHING ONLY BEEN DOING IT A YEAR AND A HALF, BUT I LIKE THE GREEN NYPHS, THAT IS WHAT A LOT OF RAINBOWS HAVE BEN CAUGHT ON AT THE TROUT LAKES NEAR MY HOUSE.

The Professor.