Alabama
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What is your top ten list of flies for fishing in Alabama?
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Alaska |
ALASKA FLIES
Hello my three favorite flies for Rainbow in Alaska and Russia is the black bunny leaches, egg sucking leach and scalping and I love to fish in Russia especially with the mouse patterns, for Sockeye I use a green and white streamer fly and a white and red is also good, for the Silver Salmon I use a silver tinsel with white or red works , this seems to irritate these fish into striking it.
KENAI RIVER, ALASKA FLIES
STREAMERS size 2-6
Double Bunny grey and white
Clouser's Minnows grey and white
Zonkers white, natural grey and purple
Egg sucking leech, purple, black or olive
Woolheaded Sculpin, olive black, brown or mixed
NYMPHS size 10 - 16
Gold Ribbed Hares Ears, olive tan and black
Prince's Nymphs
Caddis Pupa
Small stonefly mayfly and caddis nymphs
DRY FLIES size 10 - 16
Elk Hair Caddis
Stimulator
Royal Wulff
Other attractors
EGG PATTERNS size 10 - 12
Glo-bugs 6 - 10mm in dimension, best colours are , champagne, Sockeye and peachy king, Mixing colours is good
Glue Gun Eggs
Beads 6 - 10mm
FLESH FLIES sizes 4 - 12
Gingery Bunny
White Bunny
Peach Bunny
Mixed fleshy colours of bunny fur
Battle Bunny
Yarn flies with egg or Champagne coloured Glo-bug yarn on #8
Micro flesh, a small flesh coloured yarn, marabou or fur on #12
SOCKEYE SALMON FLIES size 2 - 6
Simple Stealth, black chenille body with a black or blue wing
Soft Hackle Stealth, black chenille body with a soft hackle
Polar Shrimp
Russian River Coho
Note that just about any small steelhead/salmon fly pattern can work. I have seen Sockeye move to take pink, orange and green flies. Most shy away from the bright colours but take on smaller and/or darker flies
SILVER SALMON FLIES size 2 - 6
Purple egg sucking leech (I like a cone heade added for action and weight)
Chartreuse egg sucking leech~
Flash Fly, silver or purple
Woolly Buggers with various colour combinations and flash added
Rabit stip flies with dumb bell eyes in black, purple and pink
Silvers will just about take anything at times but they can be picky. Variety is the key.
FLY FISHING EAGLE RIVER, ALASKA
My favorite flies for chum salmon are
1. Chum candy various size and color
2. Shrimp patterns various size and colors White, Orange, Pink, Red, Chartreuse
3. Purple egg sucking leach size 1 through 6
4. Krystal flash flies various size and colors Purple, Pink, Orange, Chartreuse
5. Polly Wogs
6. Saltwater epoxy head bucktails
Herring size 2ott or larger Chartreuse and white, Blue and White, Chartreuse and Blue Needle fish
7. Sand lance Purple and white marabou size 2-8
Rainbow Trout
1. Egg pattern
2. White and purple egg sucking leach
3. Olive Sculpin
4. Smolt and Fry patterns
5. Mouse patterns
6. Flesh fly
7. Bead head nymphs
8. Black leaches
Chuck Brazil |
Arizona
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ARIZONA FLY FISHING
My personal top ten flys are:
1. Carey Special size: 6,8,10 Parker Canyon Lake
2. Royal Trude size: 12,14,16 Parker Canyon Lake
3. Peacock Lady size: 10,12,14 Parker Canyon Lake
4. Zebra midge size:18 Lee's Ferry
5. Bluewing Olive size:16 Parker Canyon Lake, Lee's Ferry
6. Elk Hair Caddis size: 16 Parker Canyon Lake, Lee's Ferry
7. Adams size:16 Parker Canyon Lake, Lee's Ferry
8. Light Cahill size:16 Parker Canyon Lake, Lee's Ferry
9. Salmon egg imitations size:8,10,12 Parker Canyon Lake, Lee's Ferry
10. My variant of the Griffith Nat size:16,18,20 Parker Canyon Lake, Lee's Ferry
All locations are in the state of Arizona in the USA |
Arkansas
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WHITE AND LITTLE RED RIVERS IN ARKANSAS
For those of you that do not know there are tail water rivers with stocked rainbows, cut throats, brookies and natural reproducing browns. The Little Red has produced a 40lb + brown. The White has produced browns just under 40lbs and rainbows in the 20lb range. On an average day of fly fishing you will catch 10" to 16" fish and occasionally a 20"+. the predominate food source in both rivers are sow bugs, crayfish, midges (buzzers), sporadic caddis and Mayfly hatches
Favorite Flies
Various sow Bug imitations (such as grey bead head larva lace) size 16 and 18
Soft hackles such as Red ass-red thread tag, peacock herl body, partridge hackle and red thread head size 14 & 16
Partridge and Orange Soft Hackle size 14, 16, 18 with and without bead heads
Bead Head Hares Ear Size 14 and 16
Bead head Princes Size 14 and 16
Brassies size 18 and 20
Numerous midge pupa imitations size 18 to 22, finished with greased 6X and 7X tippet in surface film
Parachute Adams size 16 and 18 used a lot with nymphs as dry and dropper
Olive Woolly Bugger with some crystal flash size 8 and 10
Black Woolly Bugger with some crystal flash size 8 and 10
Nymphs normally fished upstream dead drift with strike indicators. Woolly buggers usually fished down and across with short strip retrieves using intermediate lines.
Doug Jackson
Little Rock, AR
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California
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FLY FISHING IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA'S EASTERN WATERS
I live in the Eastern Sierra at 5,000 foot level. I fish both moving and still water. I most commonly use the following flies:-
Beaded Flashback GRHE Nymph hook size 12 -14
Green Birds Nest hook size 12 -14
Seal Woolly Bugger hook size 8 -10 (like a woolly bugger but less palmered hackle and seal dubbing instead of chenille)
AP Emerger 12-16
Parachute Adams hook size 12 -18
PMD dry hook size 12 -18
Elk Hair Caddis hook size 10-16
Damselfly Nymph hook size 12 -14
Grasshopper hook size 8 -12
Flying Ant hook size 12
Bill Forward
www.forward-bound.com
MOUNTAIN FLY FISHING IN CALIFORNIA
The most productive dry fly I have found in the Sierras at high elevations is
the the popular Royal Coachman sizes 14,16,and 18 for little brookies.
Brook trout are generally not very particular at higher elevations where there
is little fishing pressure. A few weeks ago I caught five Browns in one day on
a #16 Coachman in the head waters of the South Fork of the American River above
Lake Tahoe. The river is heavily fished so I was shocked by the results.
The Wooly Bugger( olive and brown) sizes 6- 12 work great float tubing in high
mountain lakes especially in the Autumn. Zugbugs, beaded pheasant tail nymphs,
terrestrial imitations such as Joe's Hopper, Red and brown worm imitation flies are
killer on small streams in the Sierras as well as in ponds and lakes in the
Sacramento Valley for Sunfish.
James Mamola. CA,
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, NEVADA & WESTERN MONTANA FISHING
I fish Northern California, Nevada & Western Montana at various times of the year. My 'goto' attractor fly is the Trude, usually size 10. It rides high and is easy for my old eyes to see. Other choices are Royal Wulff and Humpy. Parachute Adams and Elk Hair Caddis sizes 14 & 16 ( I put them as a dropper at about 14 inches to a larger fly I can see). When using a single dry fly I usually have a small dropper at about 14 inches to a larger fly I can see). My favourite nymphs are Princes, Gold Ribbed Hares Ears, Birds Nest, Copper Johns and Zug Bug. I use a bead head where appropriate but then will always have a small non bead head dropper.
Best Norm Miller, USA
MOUNT LASSEN FISHING
Three of us caught a significant number of 18" - 27" beautiful native rainbows on your Parachute Adams hook size 16 & 18 on a private ranch stream near Mt. Lassen, California this past week (mid June). The fly is and has been a consistent producer in numerous situations
Semper Fi,
Dr Richard Curtis, CA, USA
SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAIN, CA
My normal method is to use weighted nymphs in pocket water and deep runs or toss woolly buggers and other streamers. I do chase trout on lakes too and have fished buzzers or midges under an indicator with quite good success.
My top flies are
wooly buggers,
Clousers Minnows,
velcro flies,
leeches,
Nearenuff,
Sculpins and other streamer patterns in size 6 to 12
Pheasant tails in 16 to 22;
Hears Ear's and red fox squirrel nymphs in 12 to 18.
Emergant and deep sparkle pupas in 14 - 18.
Keith Roberts, CA
FLY FISHING NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
The most effective wet flies I have found are those notorious flies with an ill name , woolly buggers. They are especially effective in lakes while float tubing for Bows and Browns during the fall and winter. They even work well on steelhead in the American River. the olive brown and black sizes 12-6 are all effective but the green/olive buggers and green/olive Matukas have worked the best for me.
During the summer months in the Sierra Nevada Mountains above 2000 meters elevation, the Royal Coachman and Royal Wolf dry fly patterns are very effective on brook trout in remote streams and rivers. In the more heavily fished streams and rivers various patterns and sizes of stone fly and caddis nymphs are effective almost any time of day if properly fished with an indicator. Scuds work well at times in high altitude lakes. Another fly I am quite fond of and works well as a dry fly or wet is the muddler minnow. They work well on large Mouth Bass as well as trout in lower elevation lakes and lakes in the Sacramento Valley.
James Mamola American River
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Colorado
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COLORADO HOOK SIZE
Great website! Ive learned a lot just reading the descriptions of the few flies I've seen so far. I live in Colorado, and typically fish the South Platte fro rainbow and brown trout. Small flies are the rule - rarely anything bigger than a size 22.
Thanks take care,
Doug Whittenberg, Littleton. CO
BIG THOMPSON RIVER IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
Beaded Gold Ribbed Hares Ear hook size 14 - 16
Golden Stonefly Nymph hook size 14 - 16
Copper John hook size 14 - 16
Pheasant tail Nymph hook size 14 - 16
Adams Parachute hook size 14 - 18
Woolly Worm hook size 8 - 14 (Black, Brown, Olive)
Soft hackle wet flies hook size 12 -14
Mickey Finn Streamer hook size 14 - 4
Gray Ghost Streamer hook size 14 - 4
Black Nosed Dace Streamer hook size 14 - 4
Elk Hair Caddis Hook Size 10
FLY FISHING COLORADO
In Colorado I mostly fish the South Platte, at Deckers, Cheeseman Canyon and 11 Mile Res. Also the Arkansas, the Frying Pan and Colorado River. I have most successful with
Flashback Pheasant Tails 18-20,
RS2's 18-22,
San Juan Worms,
Bar Emergers 18-22
Miracle Nymphs 20-22.
The Dries I like are Blue Winged Olives, and mostly Adams and Caddis in 16-18.
Jeff C, Denver
TOP TEN FLIES FOR DENVER COLORADO
Not sure I can name 10 flies that I rely on depends where I fish and for what. I usually walk into a fly shop and get a dozen of what ever they recommend I have been fly fishing for 35 years- alas I am not an entomologist but I do catch fish. I match color and size within reason as lately I can't see em to tie em on the line.. even with 2.5X glasses.
Upstate NY-- browns and related-- nymphs and dries bead heads princes and related from 8-14 in light medium and dark stone flies in various sizes dace and minnow patterns 2-12 hoppers and ants 8-14.
Denver Colorado-- more dries, PMD, hoppers, nymphs as above-- dry on top with a nymph trailer..
Josh Hill
TAYLOR RIVER & SPRINK CREEK
Yes, I use size 12 or 14 most of the time. I fish up around spring creek Reservoir and on the Taylor river sometime. My top 3 that I use at my cabin in Colorado at the meadows is a 14 royal humpy, elk hair caddis, and a parachute Adams. The Adams is my fav |
Connecticut
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What is your top ten list of flies in Connecticut? |
Delaware |
What are the top ten list of flies for use in Delaware? |
Florida
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What would your put on top ten list of flies for
fishing in Florida?
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Georgia
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NORTH GEORGIA FLIES
Craig I am pretty new to the Sport but here are the flies I have had the most success with here in North Georgia
1) Olive Gold Ribbed Hares Ear (10)
2) Royal Wulff (10)
3) Mosquitoe (16)
4) Royal Humpy (12)
5) Brown Elk Hair Caddis (12)
6) Adam's Parachute (18)
7) My father had a lot of luck with Streamers (Lures) but I didn't even get a nibble on them!
I went fishing this last Saturday and caught a good sized rainbow on one of your Olive GRHE. He absolutely slammed the fly and I had a hard time releasing him. It is nice to see a fly that fools the fish that well! When I finally did get him loose he held right at my feet for about five minutes before he swam off. What fun! Thanks for the great flies!
Dan Ward in Georgia
WESTERN USA FLIES
It was tough to limit my selection to ten. I use these flies with success on rivers in North Georgia, Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina like the Hiawassee, Chattooga, Tellico and Davidson. They all seem to work very well
1. Light Cahill - Easily my most favorite and productive fly. I usually use in size 14 - 16
2. Gold Ribbed Hares Ear Nymph - My favorite nymph size 18. I like to fish convergences, pools and small rapids with this fly.
3. Muddler Minnows size 14 - a Solid producer when fishing below the surface
4. Tellico - size 14 or 16 - Named after a river in Eastern Tennessee/Western North Carolina and I can see why. It really works on that river.
5. Adam's Irresistible size 18 - just like the look of this fly. It produces as well.
6. Brown Cricket size 12 - I like to use these when I am fishing in heavily covered areas. I caught a 20" wild Rainbow on the Chattooga River last Sunday with a cricket.
7. Black ant size 16 - Simply kills them in the summer
8. Mickey Finn size 8. I basically use it like a spinning lure. It works when I do not want to use rooster tails
9. Royal Wulff size 12 - I always seem to catch fish
10. Cinnamon Sedge Dry size 16 - a beautiful fly
Frank Booth, Gainesville GA
FLY FISHING IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS
(Tocoa River, Noontootla, Tammen Park Creek, Curtis Switch Bridge Creek, Fightingtown Creek) Here are an assortment of flies that work on the different waters in North Georgia:.
Royal Coachman,
Adams parachute,
Elk Hair Caddis,
Light Hendrickson,
Cinnamon Ant,
Foam Beetle for dry flies.
Streamers-
Muddler Minnow,
Clousers Minnow,
Olive Woolly Booger (this one landed a beautiful 24" rainbow on the Fighingtown Creek this past weekend)
Nymphs-
Prince Nymph (this one landed a nice 7" brook at the Curtis Switch Bridge Creek this past weekend),
Kaufman's Stone Fly,
Bitch Creek Bug
Tight Lines!
Fly Guy Pat Lozito
NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS
I am located 1 hour north of Atlanta. I mostly fly fish for trout in the North Georgia mountains and fish the tailwater fishery of the Chattahoochee River. We've got a large number of streams that are stocked regularly through the trout season but also have a large number of year round streams that are year round, catch and release and have some trophy size fish in them. For our area I mostly use these flies in size 12 in early season and size 20 later. October is prime time for Hopper and Beetle patterns
Bead Headed Princes Nymph
Y2K Bug
BWO
Adams Parachute
Gold Ribbed Hares Ear Nymph
March Brown
Elk Hair Caddis (tan & Black)
Black and Cinnamon Ants
Griffiths Gnat
Hopper
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