I'm getting supplies readied to go on a tying binge for the year ahead. I'm seeking your advice on some good patterns for classic wet fly and soft hackle flies. Not leech or minnow patterns but buggy wet flies, Coachman, Sprately, etc...Thanks
It’s a good all purpose buggy fly per the thread prompt!Wow, Matt B, same fly posted within 1 minute of each other, what's the odds of that.
That profile, tied by simply wrapping from the hook leaving a tail past the bend and a tuft at the eye with an olive Marabou on a TMC200, sometimes after attaching burnt mono eyes to the shank was a fly I think Kent Lufkin called a LGF, or Little Green F'r many years ago on the old site that has caught me (sometimes pretty darned big) fish over the years when damsels are migrating.Wow, Matt B, same fly posted within 1 minute of each other, what's the odds of that.
I ask myself just about every season...why didn't I fish a Spruce Fly more often? That thing has caught some hogs.For whatever reason, I've come to favor orange or burnt orange for our native coastal cutts in lakes. I'd like to think it is because that choice has been reinforced by positive feedback from the fishes, but I'm enough of a scientist to realize I have no statistically valid evidence for this. Nonetheless, I offer a simple fly that has worked well for me in recent years. I call it the ______ Lake Special. Burnt orange squirrel blend dubbing and English grouse hackle. I also like an orange bodied Doc Sprately, and for one particular lake that has a population of redside shiners, I like the classic Spruce fly.View attachment 102989
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