Favorite Dry Flies

[FlyTyer16]

Hey All. What are your favorite dry flies to fish will or to tie. Right now I've been tying fan wings and stimulator/ hopper patterns. Pictures of the flies would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[SilverDoctor]

Big difference in favorites to tie and fish, it also depends on what waters and time of year as they do change from stream to stream, too big a subject to even scratch the surface on but as for fav dries. BWO, Humpty's, Royal Coachman in its various forms, Adams, Paradrakes, Klinkhamers, Stimulators, and Caddis imitations for a start.

[Sean84]

Royal coachman, love to tie them aswell.

[Hawgstoppah]

My absolute favorite dry fly to fish is a stonefly. I love those vicious takes!!!

[Flyfisher]

On moving water I'm with Hawgstoppah, a stonefly.

 

On stillwater a traveler sedge. Nothing beats sight fishing a marl flat for big triploids when they're on big sedges.

[Teck71]

DRY

Goddards Caddis

 

Nymph

Serendipity

 

Streamer

for bulls

a white with red flash articulated bugger ( my own Tie)

for browns a black bugger

 

also got in to mouse patterns for bulls & monster browns last summer

[FraserN]

My favorite dry fly pattern to fish is an elk hair caddis, followed closely by a PMD; and in the fall months, I really like fishing tiny BWOs.

[Hawgstoppah]

Teck I am with you on the Mouse pattern. I landed my second largest rainbow ever, this year, on a mouse pattern in Stillwater and I still feel the adrenaline rush of that take when I think about it! If I could figure out how to post pictures on here I would, but it won't accept my links for some reason

[Gil]

I love parachute ants in the fall on small streams....Fun and fast to tie. I also love tie and fish small 20 BWO or PMD

[bigalcal]

I've had great success, (pre-flood that is) on the Cutty streams with a Parachute Caddis. I'm not sure if it's just me but I slay cutty's with that fly. Drives my friends crazy!! It's one of those flies that work, that you always forget you have!!

[Walton]

Parachute Adams

 

Tent Wing Caddis.

 

Frying Pan Green Drake.

[flieguy]

Attractors: stimulator, turk's tarantula, chernobyl ant, Parachute madame X (big)

 

immitators: f-fly, parachute adams, Parachute madame X (size 10-12), CDC ants

[mcleod52]

When I want to finesse it, PMD's, BWO's and EHC. Orange and green stimi's with a dropper when things are tough.

[FlyTyer16]

Wow. that's a lot of different flies. Most of them i Haven't heard of. I'm going to have a busy winter tying some of those flies up.

[slivers86]

elk hair caddis, pmd, black parachute adams

[Bowbiker]

Dry -Wet Hybrid ........ or ............. more like a Griffith's Gnat with a Chukar or Partridge Wet Hackle tied just behind the eye of the hook, and fish it DRY of course, with a bit of Floatant as necessary. This was Dy-No-Mite on one of the local lakes last fall.

 

I am looking forward to trying it again as soon as the ice comes off.

 

Regards,

Dick Seymour.

[plaf]

Try the big parachute patters like Pmx s and california blondes

[Walton]

I also tie a small light blue bodied dry with dun hackle in about a size 18 that is a killer for spooky trout.

[dekkard2019]

The #18 or #16 p-adams.

[Brookie]

Parachute Adams, Elk Hair Caddis and Royal Wulff for an attractor fly.