Your Top 20 Trout Flies

[greenheadgunner]

I thought this might be a fun one.

Post up up your top 10 all around, most effective dry flies and top 10 nymphs for trout. Meaning if you could only use the same 10 dries and the same 10 nymphs on all streams/lakes for the rest of your life, these would be them.

Here's mine.

Nymphs:
1. Pheasant Tail
2. Bead headed Prince Nymph
3. Copper John
4. Serendipity
5. Gold-ribbed Hare's Ear
6. Kaufman's Stone
7. San Juan Worm
8. Brassie
9. Green Rock Worm
10. Zug Bug


Dries:

1. Royal Wulff
2. Flying Ant
3. EHC
4. BWO
5. PMD
6. Stimulator
7. Missouri Trico
8. Turck's Tarantula
9. Renegade
10. Parachute Adams


Let's see yours, post up boys!

[mandinga]

Nymphs-
1.fox's poopah
2.micro mayfly
3.sparkle pupah
4.zug bug
5. copper john
6. phaesent tail
7. czech nymphs
8.kaufmanns stone
9. burkes hex
10. Burke's crystal HBI


Dries
1.x-caddis(hands down)
2.Foam body EHC
3. dead caddis
4. stimulator
5. sparkle dun
6. light cahill
7. Burk's spent hopper
8. beetle's
9. triple wing trico
10. yellow sally



That was fun....

[greenheadgunner]

One more thing, try to put them in ranked order.

That is a killer list there mandinga!

[D3smartie]

Nymphs
1. Pheasant Tail
2. Gold Ribbed Hare's ear
3. Prince Nymph
4. Copper John
5. San Juan Worm
6. zebra midge
7. golden stone
8. wd 40
9. lightning bug
10. Black bugger
we have no spot for streamers but i would have to have a black wooly bugger with me on most trips. especially when going to MT

Dries
1. Parachute Adams
2. EHC
3. Parachute PMD
4. Parachute BWO
5. Hot Creek Caddis
6. Gray CDC emerger
7. Yellow Stimulator
8. x- caddis
9. Royal Coachman
10. PMD Sprout

:smash: :smash: :smash:

[leadeyedbugger]

Nymphs

1.pheasant tail
2.zebra midge
3.hares ear
4.copper john
5.prince
6.ap nymph
7.brassie
8.morris stone
9.zug bug
10.sparkle pupa

Dries
1.x caddis
2.comparadun
3.hackle stacker
4.parachute dun
5.elk hair caddis
6.quigley cripple
7.stimulator
8.loop wing dun
9.foot print dun
10.flying ant

[Blue Tip Spinner]

nymphs:
1 through 20: hare's ear nymph

[PittsburghD]

I won't waste too much space, but Mandi has it goin' on. The caddis for dry go to is the bet. It looks like a flying light colored winged bug and works hands down. Nice call for the first three dries on your list-- I agree.

[float2ber]

PT
prince
zug
wet hackle
hares ear
lightning bug
olive bugger
copper john
egg pattern
wet ant

crackleback
parachute adams
henryville caddis
alder
black flying ant
hopper
homegrown hex
pmd
griffith gnat
muddler

[one ear dog]

nymphs- wets
1 black wooly
2 green wooly
3 brown wooly
4 spruce
6 pheasant tail
6 scud
7 zug bug
8 pheasant tail
9 hare's ear
10 brasssie
dries
1 orange body deer hair caddis
2 lt small caddis
3 my flying ant
4 stimulator
5 humpy ( ussually my 1st fly)
6 brown head green body may
7 black midge
8 gray sm adams
9 chocolate caddis
10 yellow body gray hackle