mxdad66
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Most productive fly
What is your top performing fly,or the one that hits the water first.
1) golden hares ear
2) stone fly
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/12 15:10:51
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For steel? A green/grey/silver streamer. After that, single egg.
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/12 15:17:53
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/12 16:44:38
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For Steel - black wooly bugger
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/12 17:05:35
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/12 17:18:29
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/12 17:25:38
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The moment of truth. Where all other things unconsciously melt away from our minds the instant a fish takes our fly. We stand there on the water with wide eyes, caught in a battle stance with an idea of confidence and hope
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/12 17:58:05
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S.S. and black stone fly nymph
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/12 18:00:43
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black or gold stonefly or a peach sucker spawn
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/12 22:21:14
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Sthd: single hand/indicator, egg pattern 8 or 10, orange mcfly foam with a pearl lite brite dubbing veil. Double hand/swing, white rabbit strip, red body, yellow hackle collar, tied as a tube, zonker style, with a small or medium nickel cone, usually a size 6.
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/13 07:23:49
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No. 14 gold beadhead black sparkly sparkle caddis thingy.
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RE: Most productive fly
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/13 10:21:38
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For steelhead I've had the most luck over the years on cream sucker spawn, tied with angora. Some days chartreuse has been better, sometimes white with a stripe of roe, and last year for some reason it was strawberry pink glo bugs. The first fly that hits the water? usually a General Practicioner or an Ally's Shrimp. I love tying those two patterns, and always give them a shot first. Someday the Erie steelhead will want size 6 or 4 orange prawn flies right?
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/13 11:03:02
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Cream ss with a caddis trailer.
White wolly with blue chenelle stripped past their nose.
Black stone 8.
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/13 12:59:05
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Black Beadhead weighted wooly bugger. (THE FLY)
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/15 17:45:52
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sucker spawn white or wooly bugger brown
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/16 21:51:21
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Black or brown wooly bugger and estaz egg patterns in orange or white
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/17 13:45:57
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So who all will be using these flies at the One Fly this year?
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/17 14:03:19
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ORIGINAL: killdeer19
So who all will be using these flies at the One Fly this year?
That's really standing behind your decision, huh?  My choice here was my fly last year. Unless I'm really whacking them on streamers the day before, it'll be my choice again this year. 
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/09/17 14:19:50
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Depending on the water and the availability of area. But I may go with a large orange drake in a dry pattern & a 6 wt bamboo rod. But only if it's clear. If it's murky then I might go with a cockroach colored big stone, or the streamer. For just fun fishing, I'll go with the streamer, or the glo dot. Water conditions and amt of people will definately affect my fly choice. If my physical condition limits me to lower Nut then it's chuck & duck with a glo dot. If there's a bit of room; the streamer, room for a drift down deep; the stone. Clear low water and room for at least 30 feet of drift; Dry Fly. My grandson, Skeeter, swears by a Greg Senyo, jointed blue flash wiggle stone, in black. And he seems to clobber the fish on it. I have to add that if I'm going for big fish I go with a large bunny leech or zonker strip or something like that. But for most fish the above.
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JEB
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/10/08 11:10:14
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1st: sucker spawn in peach or green apple
2nd: Crystal spawn with beadhead in peach or various oranges
3rd: nuke eggs in orange or flo green with veil
4th; black or olive crystal buggers
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/10/08 13:08:38
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green apple color really works?
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/10/13 09:15:56
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Yes, I've had days where the green apple is all they would touch.
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/10/13 09:23:02
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ORIGINAL: Nbobich
green apple color really works?
Works well on NW PA freestone streams too. An apple green czech nymph is a good pattern on Oil, Kinzua, South Branch of Kinzua, and others up in that area. I tie mine with a little section of bright orange too, but I can't say if it makes a difference in the effectiveness of the fly.
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/10/13 09:54:49
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olive woolly bugger for trout when there is no hatch.
triple threat for steel
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/10/15 19:24:28
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/10/15 19:54:01
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If we're talking trout in general...
Unless I have specific flies I came to try or conditions prevent, I'm going to at least TRY to fish up top first.
To that end, I'll fish a #14 stimulator with an orange body and yellow head or a #14 parachute adams, depending on what kind of hatch (if any) that the stream tends to get at that time of year as well as the type of water. If it's a mayfly, adams. If it ain't, stimmy.
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/10/26 18:37:28
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peach glo bug trailed by a white wooly bugger with flashabou tail... 49 times out of 50, they take the bugger.
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RE: Most productive fly
2010/10/26 21:07:35
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