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Title: If you had to use one fly ?????
Post by: MickeyFinn on Apr 16, 2006, 10:43 AM: Your fishing a stream with Browns, Bows, and Brook Trout in it, you can only use one fly the whole day. What would it Be ?

I would probably go out with a big black Wooly Bugger.
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Post by: pirkaus on Apr 16, 2006, 05:09 PM: I would have to second the black wooly booger
It's my starter till I see the hatch
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Post by: Hood on Apr 16, 2006, 05:47 PM: Olive Bugger, hands down :bowdown:
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Post by: fisher rich on Apr 19, 2006, 10:38 PM: parachute Adams,size 16.
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Post by: beerman on Apr 20, 2006, 05:46 AM: Bugger....Is there anything it doesnt catch, anytime of the year. I saw this guide map for the Ausable river in the adk's and it had a list of like 15 different flies and had the dates on when the flys were most effective. Alot of them were only a month or so long. The bugger was from May 1st to sept. 30th.
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Post by: seaweed01 on Apr 20, 2006, 10:56 PM: #10 hares ear nymph.
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Post by: Kyle on Apr 21, 2006, 01:06 AM: i would have to say size 10 leech...money fly
black or olive, prolly olive but not sure.
do any of you guys ever go crazy with buggers like me?
add tons of flash in tail, throw in a bunch of rubber legs,crazy colors,rabbit strip collar, etc
if not they are wicked...i got a pic ill throw up here.

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1st and 3rd fly mainly 8)
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Post by: MickeyFinn on Apr 21, 2006, 11:27 AM: I go nuts when I tie buggers, oversized hackles and half a pound of crystal flash ;D, the bigger the better in my book, I don't know what it is about fishing Buggers or streamers for that matter, they are so versatile and can be presented in so many ways and when it comes right down to it they are just fun to fish with, you can drift em, swing em, strip em, combination of all three in one cast ect..... A new color I have been expeirmenting with is rusty red, haven't caught anything on it yet, basicaly because I have ZERO confidence in it I don't stick with it for to long. I have so much faith in black or olive that I give it 1/2 an hour at most and then right back to black or olive. Anyone else do this also? I drive myself nuts out there sometimes.
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Post by: xrhino on Apr 21, 2006, 04:26 PM: Double bunny for me please.
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Post by: BlindSquirrel on Apr 21, 2006, 07:55 PM: Count me in on the Black Wooly bandwagon. I too find myself going back to the Wooly. I have caught every thing on it from Bluegill to Steelhead. It is definitely my go-to fly. As a bonus, it's easy to tie. 8)
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Post by: fishyfinger on Apr 24, 2006, 11:15 AM: I tie a #14 brown hackle with peacock herl body, works all year for me on most catskill mtn streams in NY.
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Post by: carpcatcher on Apr 24, 2006, 02:00 PM: I don't do alot of fly fishing but when I do I love using an inchworm. It may be just a little early now but in a week or so it will be the only thing i fish the rest of the year.
Jim
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Post by: PGKris on May 08, 2006, 03:03 AM: Quote from: seaweed01 on Apr 20, 2006, 10:56 PM
#10 hares ear nymph.

What he said
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Post by: Kodiak Commando on May 08, 2006, 03:44 PM: Wooly bugger!
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Post by: flockshot on May 10, 2006, 12:29 PM: Quote from: Hood on Apr 16, 2006, 05:47 PM
Olive Bugger, hands down :bowdown:
with a bead head...nothing better..but if it was a trophy brown stream...an olive white nutcracker.about a size 2 or 1/0...best streamer ive ever fished
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Post by: PGKris on May 24, 2006, 02:41 AM: Let's change this up. What if you were fishing a lake that had stocked brookies and rainbows, this time of year. What would you use then?? I would go with an olive dragonfly nymph, size 8
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Post by: flockshot on May 24, 2006, 10:43 AM: if i had full sink line it would be a streamer..anything in white..but if not..then i would have to stay with my olive wooly bugger.
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Post by: Hilltopper on Jun 01, 2006, 01:23 PM: If it was rainbows, I'd be going with a Grey Ghost.
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Post by: mt2 on Apr 09, 2007, 08:36 AM: Bead head prince nymph #14
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Post by: kimball07 on Apr 09, 2007, 08:41 AM: Quote from: mt2 on Apr 09, 2007, 08:36 AM
Bead head prince nymph #14

pretty close to my fav. rainbow prince #14 bead head ;)
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Post by: mttrout on Jul 06, 2007, 01:56 PM: Quote from: MickeyFinn on Apr 16, 2006, 10:43 AM
Your fishing a stream with Browns, Bows, and Brook Trout in it, you can only use one fly the whole day. What would it Be. We will say it is the current time of the year.
I would probably go out with a big black Wooly Bugger.

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flashback pheasant tail nymph w/ bead head....I almost always fish with a dropper though, and one of the most deadly combos is drifting a wooly bugger w/ a pheasant tail 14-16 inches below it.

This 18 inch brown took a size 16 flashback pheasant tail.

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Post by: Zorros shack on Jul 19, 2007, 06:52 PM: The Olive Wolly Bugger. Hey there are so many species you can use it on! It's my fav. fly!! :thumbup_smilie:
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Post by: copperjohn on Mar 04, 2008, 02:00 AM: Brown bugger w flash and beadhead tagged with #18 copperjohn. Hence my handle.
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Post by: knurren on Mar 24, 2008, 07:36 AM: I'd still go with the olive wooly bugger with flash.Mmmmm wooly bugger :laugh:
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Post by: furguson on Mar 27, 2008, 06:44 PM: if its this time of year in michigan i would have to go with the size 8 egg sucking leech just because its kind of two flies in one (glo bug+wollybugger). but i would have to cheat and break out the fly box because i would go nuts with just one fly.

mr. furguson
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Post by: trapper2000 on Mar 28, 2008, 09:53 PM: give me the old muddler minnow please
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Post by: philg on Mar 29, 2008, 09:03 PM: wooly bugger or muddler minnow
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Post by: bearsfan on Apr 04, 2008, 12:47 AM: Used to be bead head prince until last summer, Renegade is my answer. :clapping:
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Post by: MaineFishah on Apr 04, 2008, 10:06 AM: probably a brown or tan woolyworm or maple syrup on bottom
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Post by: ULTRAlite on Apr 21, 2008, 05:14 PM: Quote from: bearsfan on Apr 04, 2008, 12:47 AM
Used to be bead head prince until last summer, Renegade is my answer. :clapping:

What / When do you bust out the renegade??
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Post by: pa.bob on Mar 13, 2009, 04:42 PM: without any doubt a beadhead pheasant tail :thumbup_smilie:
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Post by: Drifter_016 on Mar 13, 2009, 04:45 PM: Black or Purple Woolly Bugger. :D
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Post by: geothefisher on Mar 17, 2009, 07:40 PM: Count me in on the black wooly bugger. I have caught everything on them. Bass, trout, walleye, crappie, gills, perch, it is my "go to" fly when all else fails!
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Post by: trapper2000 on Mar 24, 2009, 06:40 PM: if i had only one fly and had to live on what i caught ...... a muddler minnow! i have fished it unweighted during caddis hatches and as a hooper imitation caught fish ,i have fished it weighted as a streamer and caught everything from brookies to steelhead on it ,i have drifted it like a nymph and caught fish feeding on crayfish. i have caught bass bluegill trout salmon steelhead and even salt water fish on it . it's just a fly that works
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Post by: flyfish_tfo on Mar 24, 2009, 06:59 PM: Toss up between the woolly bugger and the marabou muddler
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Post by: geothefisher on Apr 10, 2009, 02:09 PM: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I tie in a little flash in my tails on my wooly buggers. Sometimes a little sparkle helps!
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Post by: icedflies on Apr 22, 2009, 03:14 PM: I basically fish two flies. The special... which is a royal coachman variation. and the Meat Whistle.. a John Barr fly. I'm getting better at tying it... and getting better at fishing it. So far it has got me... Rainbows, Browns, Brookies, Salmon, Pike and a bass. Finding the hooks at stores is next to impossible around here.
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Post by: fishman31 on Jun 09, 2009, 10:38 PM: Cream Cahill!! This fly has never let me down. Evenings on the Battenkill are the best!
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Post by: coppersteve on Jun 11, 2009, 10:48 AM: gold ribbed hares ear for me. I know it's probably me, but I have yet to catch anything on a bugger...
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Post by: Spin on Jun 20, 2009, 12:09 PM: I fish streams and frog water, cold and warm water species and hands down the Beadhead Woolly Bugger
would be my choice if I had to pick the one fly that I had to limit myself to. Takes Brookies to King Salmon, Bluegills to Esox - the most widely successful fly ever invented.

Spin
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Post by: panfishman13 on Jun 22, 2009, 07:15 PM: i would either fish a size 10 elk hair caddis, or if it's a stream that runs through a meadow, a joe's hopper. if there's brookies then definitely the hopper.
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Post by: jjsji on Sep 23, 2009, 08:09 AM: Kelly Gallup's Sex Dungeon. Works on large trout, bass, 'eyes, Steelies, Pike and muskie. What a great fly... and I love the name.
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Post by: Edm87 on Mar 14, 2010, 09:57 PM: Bead head hares ear or a wooly bugger its a toss up
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Post by: mongosmash on Mar 16, 2010, 02:38 PM: me i think i would use a # 10 hook tied Clouser style with small bead chain eyes and a gray or black top strap. those two colors have produced for me a lot. I'll throw them at almost any fish with on hesitation, i love the Clouser fly.
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Post by: troutaddict33 on Mar 16, 2010, 02:59 PM: black beadhead wooly bugger with a bunch of silver flash or black nosed dace
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Post by: dooberhoopa on Mar 19, 2010, 02:17 PM: Without a doubt a size 16 Prince Nymph when i cant get em on anything else thats whatll get
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Post by: flyfishr on Mar 22, 2010, 05:34 AM: A Rainbow Pistol Pete in a size 8 or 10
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Post by: willytrout on Mar 23, 2010, 06:31 AM: olive wooly for me. second best would be a hornberg. you can fish it like a steamer or just drift it like a wet. these are my go to flies. especialy in the spring and fall.

wt
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Post by: CoreyL302 on Jun 04, 2010, 11:23 AM: Bead Head olive wooly any size and tied by me ;D