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Fly Fishing Patterns That I Love

As Featured On EzineArticles I am going to tell you what my favorite fly patterns, or trout fly patterns are and give you the recipes. These are all great fly fishing patterns that are at home in any fly box, because they catch fish lots of them, and because I like simplicity, I'll choose one dry, one wet, one nymph, and one streamer fly. Give them a try yourself and leave me a note in the guest book and tell me what you think.

Dry Fly

Elk Hair Caddis

This is no only a great fly when caddis are on the water but it is a great attractor fly when nothing is rising and you want to fish a dry.

  • Hook 12 to 18
  • Thread olive
  • tail none
  • Body olive synthetic
  • Wing elk hair
  • Hackle medium brown palmer

Nymph

Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear

The Hare's Ear is a great nymph that is suggestive rather then exact imitation so it works in a lot of situations. You want to preserve the silhouette but the rattier the fly looks the better.

  • Hook 8 to 14
  • Thread black
  • tail brown fibers
  • Body Hare's ear fur, gold tinsel rib
  • Thorax same as body
  • Wing case mallard quill
  • Legs picked out body fur

Wet Fly

Woolly Bugger

I've caught more and bigger fish on this fly fishing pattern then any other.

  • Hook 2 to 14
  • Thread olive
  • tail olive marabou
  • Body olive chenille
  • Wing none
  • Hackle olive palmer

Streamer Fly

Gray Ghost

The Gray Ghost no only catches fish but it is just a beautiful fly

  • Hook 2 to 12, 2x long
  • Thread black
  • tail silver tag
  • Body orange floss, silver rib
  • Throat peacock herl, bucktail, golden pheasant
  • Wing olive gray hackles & golden pheasant
  • Cheek silver pheasant/jungle cock

Fly Fishing 101 - How to fly fish

These are all very good flies for catching fish, but you need to know how to fly cast a fly as well as how to determine what fish eat and what to use to imitate trout food. You can learn all this and more at Fly-fishing-101.info Where you can learn quickly and easily how to fly fish. I can't emphasize this enough there is no better course out there than Fly-fishing-101.info

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Fly fishing patterns or trout fly patterns are some of the most beautiful lures for catching fish you will ever see. Tell me your favorite

  • montanaangler Oct 7, 2010 @ 12:45 pm | delete
    we actually caught a 26" brown a few days ago on a wooly bugger. See the pics at http://www.montanaangler.com
  • montanaangler Oct 7, 2010 @ 12:43 pm | delete
    I love it that all but the grey ghost are some of my all time top produces for Montana fly fishing.
  • RardB Oct 7, 2010 @ 12:52 pm | delete
    Your right they are all great fish producing patterns, and easy to tie, except for the gray ghost which while not the fish producer that the others are just appeals to my sense of tradition and it is a beautiful thing to look at.
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