View Poll Results: What is your favorite fly type to tie?

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  • Drys. Adams and Royal Coachmen all day long!

    15 30.00%
  • Nymphs! Give me the larvae! Princes and Hare's Ears!

    11 22.00%
  • Soft hackles. Ahem. Simple is elegant.

    13 26.00%
  • Streamers! Gimme a Gray Ghost!

    2 4.00%
  • Steelhead flies float my drift boat!

    3 6.00%
  • Full Dress Salmon flies. I have evolved beyond the rest of you...

    0 0%
  • Saltwater flies! Bones eat crabs!

    3 6.00%
  • Um, I buy my flies. Why are you guys wasting your time!

    5 10.00%
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Thread: What is your favorite fly type to tie?

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    What is your favorite fly type to tie?

    I enjoy one or two types more than others, but they aren't necessarily the ones I catch the most fish on. How about you?

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    Sakasa Kebari

    This is a reversed hackle wet fly, very buggy action driven by a tenkara rod.
    Japan: Tsuttenkai, Jolly Fishers, member since 2010

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    I have gone for steelhead flys,not that i dress those but most of my dressing these days is simple salmon flys ,not the classic feather wings.
    trout and grayling flys I can get from skilled dressers at good prices via the UK forums ,its only the odd specials that i need that I do for myself .
    This is a combination of having time ,eyesight not as good as it was,and the onset of arthritis in my hands making long sessions at the vice uncomfortable.

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    Dry Flies for me. I just love watching a fish rise to the fly and either Sip, Inhale or just plain Gulp my offering.
    Gets the shivers running up and down my spine. I love it!! Jax

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    Jax, I love surface take as well, my favorite is to see a big fish race to the still surface from deep in pool and break the glass!

    But the favorite fly to tie is the fly that augments the action that I can impart on it. I can make this fly "swim" bla bla bla

    What is your favorite dry fly to tie man?

    Which one gets your goat?
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    Adam; The fly I fish most often is my Jax Roughy. It is really just a simplified version of a Lee Wulff Style fly.

    As a consequence my next best fly is the Wulff Royal Coachman. I hope the pic of the fly comes through . Have Fun. Jax

    The Fly that gets my goat is the good old No Hackle. When I get it right. SWEET! BUT when it goes wrong! Do you know just how many ways it is possible to get it wrong? Oh Boy! I hate getting it wrong. Jax
    Last edited by Jax; 05-11-2011 at 10:34 PM. Reason: Had a Senior Moment.forgot the one that gets my goat. He He!

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    Badass fly man.

    It would work here too.


    I'll see if I can't show one of mine, I think I got one left that is chewed up. I don't tie many, just what I need in my little box of hooks (kebari)
    Japan: Tsuttenkai, Jolly Fishers, member since 2010

  8. #8
    The Hydro-Psycho Series Caddis Larva. Next is the Virtual Horse Fly. Then as for Streamers, the Black/ Red Crystal Rattlesnake (simply very deadly for trophy size trout).

  9. #9
    Pictures man, or it didn't happen John.

    Snickering...

    Really, just kidding. Can we see some images of a Hydro-Psycho Series Caddis Larva?
    Japan: Tsuttenkai, Jolly Fishers, member since 2010

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    I fish and tie wets, soft hackles and winged wet .
    Do do drys and streamers also.
    But Wets is were is's at.

    wet

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