Best 5 Flies

[Remps]

If you were to bring only 5 flies out to a mountain stream what would they be?

 

Mine would have to be:

1. Deer hair caddis

2. BWO

3. Humpy

4. Stonefly nymph

5. Double bunny

 

I am not trying to get your secret flies, just for fun.

 

Pike

[Taco]

Adams, Klinkhammers, Stimmies, Pheasant tails, Hares ears

[tgo]

orange/yellow stimulator, green paradrake, small parachute adams, flashback pheasant tail, and a realistic golden stonefly nymph

 

 

[bigalcal]

Parachute Adams

Green Drake

PMD

BWO

Parachute Caddis

 

No bait fishing...... they're Cutties!!

[dekkard2019]

1. foam hopper

2. olive hare's ear

3. flash back pheasant tail

4. bwo

5. green drake

[seby]

1. Elk hair caddis

2. Adams

3. Beadhead Pheasant tail nymph

4. Stimulator (orange)

5. Beadhead Prince nymph

[Crogg]

1 Fat Albert

2 Stimulator

3 Irresistible Adams

4 Green Paradrake

5 Ant

[Bigtoad]

1. Chernobyl ant

2. parachute adams

3. Elk hair caddis

4. Black wholly buggar

5. Bead-head pheasant tail nymph

[hydroman]

Orange Stimulater

BWO

Elk Hair Caddis

Parachute adams

Beaded Prince Nymph

[Rainbowhunter]

yeagers unsinkable

pheasant tail

hares ear

caddis

green drake

[CTownTBoyz]

Nymphing for cutties? What's next...indicator fishing for Steelhead..scented flies for permit?

 

[Giovanne]

  CTownTBoyz said:

Nymphing for cutties? What's next...indicator fishing for Steelhead..scented flies for permit?

 

 

Ran into a fellow a couple months ago on a cuttie stream that shall remain unnamed and he commented to me how the cutties kept trying to eat his indicator...

[CTownTBoyz]

  Giovanne said:

Ran into a fellow a couple months ago on a cuttie stream that shall remain unnamed and he commented to me how the cutties kept trying to eat his indicator...

 

 

and, did he continue bobber fishing?

[CTownTBoyz]

The ironic part about nymphing cutties is that it is not as productive as the dry fly (or streamer).

 

So really.....why??

[tgo]

  CTownTBoyz said:

The ironic part about nymphing cutties is that it is not as productive as the dry fly (or streamer).

 

So really.....why??

 

 

Why not just use a hopper dropper? When the cutty eats your "indicator" you still win.

[Giovanne]

  tgo said:

Why not just use a hopper dropper? When the cutty eats your "indicator" you still win.

 

I think you'd have more "wins" with a hopper-hopper.

[Giovanne]

  CTownTBoyz said:

and, did he continue bobber fishing?

 

He lost me after he told me that story.

 

Probably one of those guys you see nymphing the bow @ 5:00am the beginning of July..

[CTownTBoyz]

  Giovanne said:

He lost me after he told me that story.

 

Probably one of those guys you see nymphing the bow @ 5:00 am the first week of July..

 

 

Or maybe one of those guys you see nymphing the Racehorse at 12 noon on July 7.

 

I watched 5 guys walk up Racehorse a couple years back on the second weekend of July. They were geared up with every gadget imaginable....including bobbers on every rod.

 

It was weird.......seeing a bobber in that place at that time is like seeing a flasher. At first it shocks the hell out of ya, and then all you can do is laugh.

[Giovanne]

  CTownTBoyz said:

Or maybe one of those guys you see nymphing the Racehorse at 12 noon on July 7.

 

I watched 5 guys walk up Racehorse a couple years back on the second weekend of July. They were geared up with every gadget imaginable....including bobbers on every rod.

 

It was weird.......seeing a bobber in that place at that time is like seeing a flasher. At first it shocks the hell out of ya, and then all you can do is laugh.

 

I believe this is how most guys learn now and get keyed in on only one method, trying no other method?

 

My 5 flies for small streams;

 

-Stimulator

-Green Drake

-Elk Hair caddis

-Clouser- Big one

-Bow River Bugger- Big one

[tgo]

  Giovanne said:

I think you'd have more "wins" with a hopper-hopper.

 

not always, that's when trying new flies helps. Sometimes people start early in the season or early morning and have a little more luck with nymphs on the dropper. Ilike fishing two dries during the mid-day too.

[CTownTBoyz]

  tgo said:

not always, that's when trying new flies helps. Sometimes people start early in the season or early morning and have a little more luck with nymphs on the dropper. Ilike fishing two dries during the mid-day too.

 

Two dry flies.....that's just greedy.

 

Chernobyl Ant

Skid Beeeatch

Klinkhammers

Pink Thing

Double Bunny

 

[FraserN]

I would bring:

 

1. march brown nymph

2. PMD

3. elk hair caddis

4. Wooly bugger (for the Bulls)

5. adams

[maxwell]

small red ant

foam green drake

ph tail nymph

white rabbit streamer

black crystal bugger

[beedhead]

  CTownTBoyz said:

Nymphing for cutties? What's next...indicator fishing for Steelhead..scented flies for permit?

 

 

If ya can read the water, ya know what's going to work..... ....Dry, nymph, and/or what ever blows your hair back.....

[Brookie2]

  beedhead said:

If ya can read the water, ya know what's going to work..... ....Dry, nymph, and/or what ever blows your hair back.....

Here, here !!