Lets play help the fly fishing idiot.

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2008/04/22 04:14:20 (permalink)

Lets play help the fly fishing idiot.

I bought a fly rod 2 years ago and got a few on the water lessons from a friend who has moved since then.  For christmas he sent me two boxes of flies he tied with an instruction sheet as to what they were and what to use them for. 
Now keep in mind that I know nothing about flies, anyway I lost the sheet.  So now I have a couple of boxes of flies and no idea what they are or when to use them........So if you could play NAME THAT FLY.  I would appreciate it.
I guess I should add that I identify benthic macroinvertebrates quite a bit at work so I do know the families and so forth.  Any way here we go..... Oh by the way I really don't know much about, wet dry, etc...
 
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#4
 

 
#5
 

 
 
#6
 

 
#7   Chironomid??
 

 
#8   Caddis?  Phyraganiidae????

 
#9    another Caddis?
 

 
#10  no clue
 

 
#11   ??
 

 
#12  woolly booger?
 

 
#13  no clue
 
 

 
#14  caddis?
 

 
#15  dragon or damselfly?
 

 
#16  Dragonfly?
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Better too far back, than too far forward.
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    fishenfool46
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    RE: Lets play help the fly fishing idiot. 2008/04/22 08:02:41 (permalink)
    1 looks like a hares ear nymph good to just dead drift with the current.#2 looks like a black nose dance streamer you can let the current swing it out at the end of the drift or strip your line back making it look as if swimming.#3#4wet fly#5 no idea#6looks like another wet flythose you can swing in current and short strip it back.#7 looks to me to be a cased caddis dead drift that one.#8#9 stone flys dead drift with current.#10#11 some sort of attractor flys.#12#13wooley buggers dead drift and let swing at end of drift for a short time this
    when you usally get a take.#14 nymph #15#16 dragon fly nymphs dead drift with current.hope this helps

    I didn't say these are the ten suggestions
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    RE: Lets play help the fly fishing idiot. 2008/04/22 08:12:25 (permalink)
    1 hares ear nymph
    2
    3 light cahill wet
    4 dark henrickson wet 
    5 sulpher something
    6
    7 caddis larva
    8 another hares ear something
    9 green drake nymph
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    12 bugger
    13 bugger
    14 generic black nymph, maybe stonefly
    15 Hex nymph  - what's that growth? 
    16 Hex nymph
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    RE: Lets play help the fly fishing idiot. 2008/04/22 10:34:27 (permalink)
    I think your buddy just creates whatever he pulls out of his brain. i cant decifer the ones that john couldnt either. And if those are drakes.... eeeek!

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    RE: Lets play help the fly fishing idiot. 2008/04/22 21:57:57 (permalink)
    Thanks for the info, it is greatly appreciated.  So what you are telling me is that he cleaned his fly boxes out before he left and sent them this way?
     
    Oh well they look good to me cause I don't know any better.  He used to tie for a shop out east.  Tried a few in the stream on the property right at dark tonight, no luck.  Will try again tomorrow.

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    RE: Lets play help the fly fishing idiot. 2008/04/23 06:48:14 (permalink)
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    Thanks for the info, it is greatly appreciated.  So what you are telling me is that he cleaned his fly boxes out before he left and sent them this way?

    Oh well they look good to me cause I don't know any better.  He used to tie for a shop out east.  Tried a few in the stream on the property right at dark tonight, no luck.  Will try again tomorrow.


    Try - 1,7,8 and 14 at this time.

    Try - 3,4,5 in 2 weeks
    post edited by jlh42581 - 2008/04/23 06:51:50

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