A fly for all fish....

[bucko]

Question for you fly fishers.
If you were to have only one fly to cover wild lake browns, wild river browns, rainbows, salmon, sea trout and maybe even a bit of saltwater fishing what would it be? Of course it could be in various sizes and forms- tube, single, double etc..

I think I'd plump for a Silver Stoat.

[mattylamb]

having never done salmon, sea trout or saltwater fishing i will exclude them from my choice, but for lake and river fishing, rainbow and brown, i would have to opt for the Pheasant Tailed Nymph

[bucko]

having never done salmon, sea trout or saltwater fishing i will exclude them from my choice, but for lake and river fishing, rainbow and brown, i would have to opt for the Pheasant Tailed Nymph

Good call though Matty- A leaded version would take plenty of salmon and sea trout. A mate of mine fishes a version with a lumo orange thorax and does well on Wear sea trout.
Add a flashy thorax and its not a bad fry imitation either.

[Nicepix]

I've thought about it long and hard and taken into account my woeful level of ability. I can hardly lecture on tactics and the like in such illustrious company. I'm a crap fly-tyer and hopeless caster so my subject matter is pretty limited. I have decided therefore to give the best advice I can in the form of two words.

Now these two words are equally applicable to those who fish freshwater or salt, small ponds, expansive reservoirs, rivers large and small and whether you live north or south of the equator. I could use three words, but two will suffice. If I had to choose and my life depended on it I would pick brown, but you might prefer green or black.

The words that I give to you first came to me over the Atlantic in the shape of a bargain deal on eBay. Since then I have fished them upstream dead drift for trout and chub, twitched and stripped them for both those species as well as pike and perch. Fished down and across on a ghost or sink tip they will take grayling and find trout of a size that that you never believed were possible from that water. They are the only fly that will take chub over 1lb fishing this way. Normally big chub turn their noses up at anything that is dragged, but they'll take these especially in the first few weeks of the coarse season. Skate them across the riffles in spring and watch the trout tear after them. In still-waters they can be fished deep and slow and will invariably take the bigger fish. Brownies love them. Fished over sandy bays and in creeks flatties will mistake them for ragworms and blennies.

I am of course talking of the Woolly Bugger!

[bucko]

A very good call Clive and very well explained!

[lochbois]

Ive got to say if i only had to use i fly on the river,reservoir ,as you mention i would have to say the Peter Ross . i have caught salmon, browns ,sea-trout,rainbows,ells,chub, and bats like them aswell.Boring maybe but they work for me.Got a box full waiting to get out fishing.<lochbois>

[Davo]

The Bread Fly

[bucko]

The Bread Fly

Ahhh, the 'Mothers Pride' - popular at Lockwood during the 80's I recall

[Davo]

Thats the one Ian. When things get tough, always turn to the Mothers Pride. Mind you, i've had first class info that the Wharburtons catches more.

[go go gadget]

id go for a ptn

[Davo]

Maybe Dan, but always keep a Wharburtons in your Box for good measure. yerknowwhatimeanlike?

Dave

Ps have you been doing owt lately Dan?

[coasty]

Well if it was for all fish including sea trout and brownies etc then I would go for the teal blue and silver.  You can dress it short or long in lots of sizes and I reckon you can catch anything on it.  One fly for coarse fish and brownies would have to be GRHE you can dress it as a nymoh or even as a dry,,,,

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