If God Held a Gun to Your Head....

[NCHillbilly]

...and told you that to atone for your wickedness, you could only fish one pattern of dry fly and one pattern of nymph the rest of your life, what would yours be?

I'd say mine would be a Yellow Palmer and a Pat's Rubber Legs.

 

[Nicodemus]

In fresh water it would be yellow foam spider and a rubber legged dragon.

In salt water it would be a imitation minnow white with darker bars on the flanks, and an imitation shrimp, tan with orange accents.

 

[menhadenman]

Yellow stimulator and the old reliable bead head prince… but I haven’t fly fished in several years. Have caught trout in many parts of the country with those two though.

 

[Ruger#3]

I’m a mediocre trout fishermen at best. Get my fix on bass and bream.

Yellow Boogle Bug with a green rubber legged dragon trailer.

 

[pbradley]

Never caught a trout on a fly, wouldn't know where to start. I like catching bream on a black ant or a green foam bug like the old Schumann's stone flies.

 

[flyrod444]

Pats' rubber leg nymph, Adams parachute dry fly, and juicy leg wooly bugger for streamer.

 

[whitetailfreak]

Thunderhead Dry and a Tellico

 

[Doug B.]

I would probably go with an Elk Hair Caddis and a Pheasant Tail Nymph.

 

[Tight Lines]

Man that's a tough one...for me, having fished a bunch of different waters it is hard...

Dry fly: Parachute Adams
Nymph: Flashback Pheasant Tail

I've caught everything from brookies in Labrador to cutthroat out West on those two and a bunch in between...hard to beat them...

 

[trad bow]

That’s a tough one. I favor NCH’s picks and those would be my choice also but whitetailfreak’s picks are real deal sentimental flys for me from my childhood.

 

[Concrete Pete]

This is a good thread.

Dry: Elk hair caddis probably
Nymph: Spanish Bullet

I almost picked the squirmy wormy. The first fly I caught so many (stocked) fish on that I got bored with it.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Tellico Nymph
Adams Parachute

 

[Tight Lines]

Tellico Nymph
Adams Parachute

I just about went Tellico or Zug Bug...or Bead Head Prince...

Hard to beat a Parachute Adams...

 

[Tight Lines]

Yellow stimulator and the old reliable bead head prince… but I haven’t fly fished in several years. Have caught trout in many parts of the country with those two though.

Stimulator is one of my favorite flies...yellow, red, black, orange, green...

 

[Tight Lines]

...and told you that to atone for your wickedness, you could only fish one pattern of dry fly and one pattern of nymph the rest of your life, what would yours be?

I'd say mine would be a Yellow Palmer and a Pat's Rubber Legs.

Don't have a lot of experience with either...but looking forward to trying them...

 

[menhadenman]

Stimulator is one of my favorite flies...yellow, red, black, orange, green...

It’s a switch hitter too… can fish it wet or dry. Pretty dynamic bug.

 

[jrickman]

I don’t know all the names, but for dry I’ve caught more on an elk hair caddis than anything, and for nymphing I use the little ant looking things with the gold bead.

 

[Tight Lines]

It’s a switch hitter too… can fish it wet or dry. Pretty dynamic bug.

That's right, I use it as an indicator in a dry dropper scenario but sometimes I've used it as a wet fly...

 

[cowhornedspike]

Parachute Adams and Prince nymph.

 

[splatek]

Yellow or black stimulator and telico