Name your one fly

I mostly fish moving fresh water so:
Dry: Sz. 8 black Stimulator
Streamer: Sz. 6 Muddler Minnow
Nymph: Sz. 8 bead head hare's ear softhackle nymph (If I could only have one this would be it). Runner up sz. 6 coffee/blk Pat's Rubberlegs.
Emerger: Sz. 12 or 14 partridge and orange
Terrestrial: Sz, 16 rust/blk ant
 
In order of my dry fly season.

Mayfly/attractor - Purple Haze (all sizes) this fly is incredible, and surprisingly more effective than a elk hair during the Mother's Day caddis
Attractor dry - Water Walker (all sizes)
Salmon fly - Cat Puke (size 6)
Golden stone/attractor - Chubby (size 10 or smaller)
Hopper - Thunder Thighs, alt would probably be a Morrish (all sizes)
 
Dry, Adams
Streamer, Any Minnow pattern, particularly a shore minnow pattern I tie
Nymph, Bead head Wooly Bugger
Bass & Carp Crawfish pattern
Crappie/Bluegill Damsel Nymph
Brookies, my own Brookies' Demise
 
jim ficklin said:
Dry, Adams
Streamer, Any Minnow pattern, particularly a shore minnow pattern I tie
Nymph, Bead head Wooly Bugger
Bass & Carp Crawfish pattern
Crappie/Bluegill Damsel Nymph
Brookies, my own Brookies' Demise
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I'd love to see a picture of the Brookes Demise!
 
I am not a one-fly guy, but for the past few years these flies have fooled the most fish for me, by far
Streams
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Salt Beach
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Lakes generally tend to baffle me, but when fish are interested in damsel nymphs...
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Dry: My Adirondack Muddler or the Usual size 12-14
Streamer: Muddler Minnow size 10-12
Nymph: gold bead head black wooly bugger size 6-8. But this summer I'm going to spend time fishing Lance Egan's small bright jig nymphs.
Wet fly: starling and herl tied with a waist (Culton's Drowned Ant)
Terrestrial: ants, or the Adirondack Muddler as a hopper.
 
Zak said:
I'd love to see a picture of the Brookes Demise!
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These are incredibly effective on my fav Brookie lake back home in the fall. I found this one in an old Montana fly box. Pretty simple - Peacock herl body, sparse Pheasant tail wings. Looks like I missed trimming the wing butts on this one (size 14).
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I know my answer will be incredibly boring, and it isn't a sexy fly, but my "one" would be a black bunny leech, maybe size 8 or 10. Not incredibly large. Just wrap on some lead, tie in the tail, wrap up the shank, and call it good. It is like a 2 minute fly, and still my most deadly. I have caught all species of trout in still- and moving water: bows, lahontan cutts, brookies, westslope cutts, bulls, and browns. Not sure if it is the most productive because it just is, or because I have the most confidence in it so I fish it the most often, but for trout, I can confidently say it has been my most productive fly in almost any setting.
 
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wetline dave said:
Nane your one selection for, dry fly, streamer, nymph and emerger.

Dry, Adams
Streamer, Muddler Minnow
Nymph, Pheasant Tail
Emerger, Light tan and partridge.

Add any category you like.

Dave
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Kudos to you for coming up with this one!
 
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