[Jay Scott]

Hi Guys,

Not sure if this has been done already... think i might remember it a while ago but thought i would give it a bash anyway  . If you were limited to say 5 different fly patterns to use throughout the year on a stillwater fishery what would they be? Bearing in mind this would have to cover a variety of different fishing conditions. I guess i'll start..

1. Pale yellow spider
2. Pheasant tail nymph
3. Green hotspot spider
4. Black shuttlecock CDC
5. GB Olive Damsel

Would also be intresting to see what the salmon fishermen would use through their season on the river chasing the silver tourists.. I would put down my 5 but never had one on the fly yet so i can't justify it 

Cheers,

Jay

[Iain Goolager]

1) Black Klink
2) Black shuttlecock emerger
3) Green Traffic Light Buzzer
4) Small Copper Tungsten Beaded Nymph (Hares Ear, PTN hybrid type thing)
5) Small Smutty thing (size 16 or 18, sparsely dubbed natural Mole with a thin mirage rib - has taken a fish or three in the more difficult conditions this last two seasons)

Iain

[Ben Dixon]

Purely For Still water

Black & silver buzzer
Orange Blob
Black shipmans
Black Klink
DHE

Presume I could carry a range of sizes?


Ben

[Hamish Young]

Hmmmm tricky..... 5 boxes maybe

As the opportunities for Loch fishing for Brownies are a wee bit more open to me now I'm in Inverness-shire (well, most of the time) I'll go for the five patterns that I'd be daft to leave home without:

1. Claret Bumble
2. Bibio
3. Silver Invicta
4. Golden Loch Ordie
5. Green Hedgehog

I'm not saying they'd be 'conventionally' dressed, but those are the patterns I'd take.

Hamish 

[Barry Robertson]

1. Woofta Booby.
2. 2 tone Blob.
3. Traffic light Buzzer.
4. Pearly Cormorant.
5. G&H sedge .

[Iain Goolager]

and a Woofta Booby looks like????????????

[Jay Scott]

  was just thinking the same thing... sounds intresting


Jay

[Ben Dixon]

1. Woofta Booby.
2. 2 tone Blob.
3. Traffic light Buzzer.
4. Pearly Cormorant.
5. G&H sedge .

Nice Baz, nice!!  wtf is a woofta booby, is it pink?  Post a pic.

Presume the G&H sedge is to hang the aforementioned creations from?


Cheers

Ben

[Steven Sinclair]

Here are my choices

1.GRHE
2.Black Buzzer with silver rib
3.F-Fly
4.Sedgehog
5.A home tied monstrocity using egg yarn, which looks terrible! (just ask Mike) but the bows seem to like it!

[Alex Burnett]

Would probably have to be

1. Olive Alex (Damsel)
2. Aps Bloodworm
3. Huff N Puff
4. Alex Cat
5. Black Buzzer (blue rib)

Alex

[Barry Robertson]

Nice Baz, nice!!  wtf is a woofta booby, is it pink?  Post a pic.

Presume the G&H sedge is to hang the aforementioned creations from?


Cheers

Ben

A woofta booby is  basically a cat booby with pink eyes and a G&H sedge is a deer haired Sedge which works well pulled or twiddled both on top of the water as a dry or under the surface pulled,

http://www.hywelmorgan.co.uk/images/shop/3_7_woofta.jpg
http://www.whichdryfly.co.uk/images/GH%20Sedge.JPG

I will take pics of my own ones later 

[Irvine Ross]

My five

black & peacock spider
black Klinkhammer
olive damsel nymph
pearly crippled emerger
black buzzer, pearl rib

And if I could have it, my sixth would be a bloodworm.

That said, I'm still going to take the usual four boxes

Irvine

[Peter McCallum]

Mine changes regularly but at the moment it would be

Deer Hair sedge a la Bob Wyatt

March Brown emerger

Hare & copper nymph

Parachute emerger (klinkhammer types)

Olive Tadpole

Peter

[TROUT-SALMON]

1.Yellow Blob
2.Olive Cormorant
3.Aps Bloodworm
4.Damsel
5.Black and green Buzzer
That would be the flys that would be in my fly box 

[Kev Danby]

In no order of preference.

Gold head hares ear size 18/16
Pearly Pennell
Bibio/Bibio Spider
F Fly
Black buzzer with silver rib and orange cheeks size 12/14