If you could only fish

[Bryan Baron 2]

Nymphs
GRHE
PTN

Drys
Chronomid
Olive Dun

Lures
Cats Wiskers
Montana Nymph

 

[NT]

Damsel
Dabbler
Cats whisker
Booby
Blob (I don't mind owning up!)
Diawl Bach

 

[Rasmus Keis]

Ron-

Wooly Bugger is also one of my favourites for sea run brown trout. But what is a "Viva style butt"??

 

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)]

It means that the fly has a few turns of daylight fluorescent lime green wool at the end of the body and where the tail starts. The rest of the pattern is black.

The original Viva, so named after an old British motor car - the Vauxhall Viva was devised by Victor Furse. It is one of the deadliest lures for rainbow trout.

 

[CAT]

I used to catch Trout all the time on old patterns like Viva, Sweeny Tod, Baby Dolls, yet i never fish them now, strange how flys go out of fashion.

 

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)]

Do you know Cat I never caught a fish in my life on a Sweeny Todd, although it wasn't for the lack of trying.

The pattern was invented by **** Walker's mate Pete Thomas.

I think as a white lure the cats whisker is a better fly than the baby doll.

As for the Viva, I've caught thousands of fish including American Bass on this fly. I think the Woolly Bugger variant is better.

 

[jimmy degg]

what about the top six river flies, trout and grayling???

 

[Frothey]

GRHE
Hot Spot pheasant tail
Montana in black/flouro green
Mayfly nymph
Daddy longlegs
Fry imitation that the local shop makes up for the bass....

 

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)]

GRHE
Various types of PTN
Various types of Czech nymphs
Mayflys
BWOs
Black Gnat.

 

[Geordy B???]

cove ptn
hares ear nymph
black & peacock spider
black sleech
claret dabbler
black buzzer

 

[Tom Rigby 2]

Sea Trout
Blue and silver tube
Blue and silver sunk lure
Blue and silver snake
Medicine
Fiery brown secret weapon
Ethafoam surface lure (black)

Salmon
Ballina Grey shrimp
Apache shrimp
Foxford shrimp
Ally's Shrimp
Yellow Green and silver tube (aka Worcester Highlander)
Black and yellow tube

Rivers Trout
F Fly
Griffith's gnat
Grey Duster
Detatched body Mayfly
Snipe and purple
Black spider

Rivers grayling
Red tag
Pink shrimp
Yellow and brown czech nympht
Olive and Brown czech nymph
Red and Brown czech nymph
Brown czech nymph


Stillwaters
Doritos buzzer (black)
Doritos buzzer (olive)
Doritos buzzer (red)
Doritos buzzer (White)
Red spot shrimp
White zonker thingie

 

[Ian Alexander]

Damsel-turkey feather
Skip nymph
Co-op-my own pattern
Cranefly-my own pattern
Invicta
Butcher

I much prefer to tie my own and in actual fact, my choices would change according to the season. I spread them out here.

I also fish for Bass in the USA and sea fish with fly in the UK.Completely different flies of course.
I'm quite new to tying and am only just grasping tying on wings!

 

[scott paddon]

black tadpole-tied with a little flat lead under body. this fly has caught me many trout, it also acts as a small leach imitation in later season. alexandria-a good fyr imitation. black pennal-agood uzzer imitation. small damsel-a favourite fly in every anglers box. white booby-for when the going gets tough, especially when trout lie deep on hot summer days. diawl bach-another good buzzer imitation.

 

[Illeach]

Here is my six:

Biblio
Soldier Palmer
Kate McKlaren muddler
Blue Zulu sedgehog
Donny Murdo
Black Pennell

I must be old fashioned, I don't have any lures or nymphs in my choice.

 

[jason fisher]

thought you were going to let on what you were gettting at mr clay if you look back to page 1.

 

[Keith Robinson 2]

Still water trout.
Black Buzzer.
Med.,Olive Buzzer
Hares Ear
Greenwell (winged wet)
Appetizer L.S 8
2 inch Black Lure (doubles with size 8 hooks)

These patterns are then followed numerous varieties of P.T.Ns, sedges, etc, etc, etc, just to confuse the issue.

 

[Keith Robinson 2]

Ron,
Going back to your opening bit, and your comments on the Hawthorn, although I have fished when the fly has been about,and I always found that to fish a couple foot down was far more productive than fishing on top, as on occasions when the buzzer is about during the last hour.

 

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)]

I must admit I have caught most of my hawthorne caught trout on the top.

However I have caught lots on a sunk Daddy.

 

[ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)]

"Come on people lets have more of your selections.

After a few more posts you will see what I am getting at"



And that is .........???

 

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)]

A compilation of the most popular flies Ed.