10-31-2008, 04:21 PM
I've answered this elsewhere before, but I'm very set in stone with it. I carry 8 different patterns, in a few colors (light and dark), and nearly all sizes from #18 to #10. (I've NEVER seen a rising trout that wouldn't hit a sparsley tied 18, but would hit one smaller, so I no longer bother with 20's and 24's.) Wing colors are either very light or black, so I can see the fly on either background.
Anytime, Any Place, one box in my shirt pocket.:
CDC dun with spent wings. (covers ANY mayfly stage or species with on-stream modification)
Elk Hair Caddis.
Parachute Adams.
Foam wing emerger (floats half-in, half-out) (covers all midge and mayfly hatches)
Foam Hopper
Adult Damsel
I do have a couple fo other boxes of "odd' flies I'll add from time-to-time on a specific water, but rarely. Specific mayflies, adult stones, midges, cdc caddis for flat water, griffiths gnats, ants, beetles, etc.
And no, I don't cary nymphs or streamers. Just personal preference. There's always a riser somewhere, or a fish that can be made to rise.
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Anytime, Any Place, one box in my shirt pocket.:
CDC dun with spent wings. (covers ANY mayfly stage or species with on-stream modification)
Elk Hair Caddis.
Parachute Adams.
Foam wing emerger (floats half-in, half-out) (covers all midge and mayfly hatches)
Foam Hopper
Adult Damsel
I do have a couple fo other boxes of "odd' flies I'll add from time-to-time on a specific water, but rarely. Specific mayflies, adult stones, midges, cdc caddis for flat water, griffiths gnats, ants, beetles, etc.
And no, I don't cary nymphs or streamers. Just personal preference. There's always a riser somewhere, or a fish that can be made to rise.
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