Favourite flies

[Ollieollie]

Another one for the new section! Give us your favourite flies

 

[Viaductbaggies]

Blue bottle ?

 

[Thrasher]

Blobs

 

[Thrasher]

Nomads

 

[Thrasher]

Snakes

 

[Ollieollie]

No boobies?? ?

I suppose I’m a very traditional fly fisher! I’ve only ever dry fly fished, and the majority of my flys are tried and tested old favourites, I built up a smallish collection of flies to cover all aspects of the match the hatch book and then added a couple of quirky flies

 

[flappy]

Pearly Wickhams fancy
Great when there's a hatch of buzzers

 

[Issy]

I prefer zips, button ones are a pain.

 

[flappy]

 

[flappy]

Has to be the fulling mill foam version.

 

[Dutchman]

Not got pic, but when we used to go fly fishing i was buying Fly Fishing mag and in it would have a fly to tie.
My mate would tie the flies.
The one month was the Humungous Fly, he tied some and on the weekend we went fishing.
Every cast bang a trout, and no others catching all around us, one bloke reported us that we were fishing with dodgy stuff.

 

[Cfish]

Night crawlers.

 

[flappy]

Thassa wum.

 

[Beach]

Depends on what I am fishing for and the time of year. Ranges from size 10/12 fly lures and ptn's in winter/cold weather to size 14/16 dry flies (wickhams/ants/duck wing, hawthorn) to match the hatch in warmer weather. River fishing for sea trout and salmon then teal blue & silver on the dropper and a thunder & lightning on the point. For mullet I tend to use a small maggots/shrimps or bread in tidal rivers.

 

[Thrasher]

No boobies?? ?

I suppose I’m a very traditional fly fisher! I’ve only ever dry fly fished, and the majority of my flys are tried and tested old favourites, I built up a smallish collection of flies to cover all aspects of the match the hatch book and then added a couple of quirky flies

Yep.

 

[Thrasher]

No boobies?? ?

I suppose I’m a very traditional fly fisher! I’ve only ever dry fly fished, and the majority of my flys are tried and tested old favourites, I built up a smallish collection of flies to cover all aspects of the match the hatch book and then added a couple of quirky flies

I have those too, just no pics.

Those are for chasing rainbows with but when the olives are hatching on the loch about May a Greenwells Glory is deadly.

 

[Thrasher]

Sea troot flees.

 

[Cfish]

Allis shrimp?? For salmon?????

 

[Thrasher]

Allis shrimp?? For salmon?????

Allys shrimp Cfish, created by Alistair Gowans. He also created the Cascade another good salmon fly.

 

[Cfish]

Allys shrimp Cfish, created by Alistair Gowans. He also created the Cascade another good salmon fly.

The anglers on the wye used them but on our beat it was mostly flying cs when spinning was allowed. Long time ago.