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Title: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 02/01/2018 at 15:27

 So then which one would it be? remember the Romans were supposed to have used a red wool body and a feather from a cockerels neck , essentially a red palmer, no mention of any other fly. choice of 3 materials So, What would keep your interest up?. Derek Roxborough

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Terry Coging on 02/01/2018 at 16:23

The 'one' fly for me would be the Montana nymph. Hugely versatile.

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Dave Robb on 02/01/2018 at 16:24

If we’re talking trout, it surely has to be a pheasant tail nymph as the best all rounder?

I really can’t think of another pattern where it almost comes with a guarantee.  Rivers, lochs, fisheries, it does the business everywhere.

I do like a Black Pennel though and that would be a close second.

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Liam Stephen on 02/01/2018 at 17:38

Ptn!  :z16

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 02/01/2018 at 20:42

 I've caught more on a Black pennel than I ever have on a PTN, :z8 Derek Roxborough

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Derek Mckay on 02/01/2018 at 21:10

Ptn here as well.

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Bryan Redd on 03/01/2018 at 03:32

Quote from: Derek Roxborough on 02/01/2018 at 20:42

I've caught more on a Black pennel than I ever have on a PTN, :z8 Derek Roxborough

Derek,  Do you fish the Black Pennel only in  stillwaters, or in rivers too?

Cheers,

Bryan

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 03/01/2018 at 06:00

 I am essentially a loch fisher, very rarely get the chance to fish rivers , although I caught trout in the Tirry on a Zulu,  :z14  Derek Roxborough

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Eddie Sinclair on 03/01/2018 at 07:47

Hares lug

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 03/01/2018 at 12:35

 thinking about it , and being a wet fly fisher, it would have to be a Solwick, Derek Roxborough

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: James Laraway on 03/01/2018 at 15:55

for me the choice would come down to 2 flies...

a close second would be a gold head hare's ear nymph

...wait for it....

 first choice would be a humungous ( preferably black with orange dumbell eyes) !

Why ? They will catch browns and 'bows. Stocked and wild. Will tempt trout from big to small in rivers and lochs - and all the way through the season...

none of the namby-pampy stuff for me...

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 05/01/2018 at 08:38

Define "one fly" :)

I would choose a PTN because I can dress it small, large, long, short, with beads, without beads, with hot spots, with sparkle, with a wing and more.

Is that still "one fly"? :)

I have them large to represent stoneflies, but also with a pearly thorax that, when stripped, looks like a minnow. I have them dressed with a CDC plume to act as an emerger, I have them ties curved to look like a buzzer, of course I have beads to get them down in the river....the list is endless.

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 06/01/2018 at 07:45

Would have to admit to the PTN as well.  :oops

Never been my favourite fly by a long way, but if i had to eat...............

Sandy

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Allan Liddle on 06/01/2018 at 09:50

I struggle with one box, never mind one flee :z4

Ok then, maybe DHE, or Dirty Duster, or PearlyHE, or Cow Dung Hopper, Nope it would have to be a Hedgehog, or a Half-hog Hopper, then there''s the Black Nymph, Rubber legged jig, oh French Nymph, PTN, farkit i'll just take the box and decide when i get there  :z4 :z4

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Liam Stephen on 06/01/2018 at 10:33

Allan yours is the squirmy I thought?

 :z18

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Allan Liddle on 07/01/2018 at 22:02

Ginked Squirmy i'll have you know  :wink :wink :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Bob Mitchell on 08/01/2018 at 08:58

Simple black spider. Caught my first fish on it nearer  70 than 60 years ago and it still works.
That just leaves the problem of why I carry a box of favourites.
Bob.

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Terry Coging on 08/01/2018 at 11:08

OK just one fly? How would we define that? Would the fly have to conform with the original published version that became a classic? As Rob Brownfield points out, a ptn can be turned into almost anything. Same with the Montana nymph.
So, given that we can only use three materials and one thread, which would be the one fly?

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 08/01/2018 at 22:19

 If you split some hairs  Terry, you will have that extra material to work with  :X2  Derek Roxborough

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Terryll Monroe on 22/08/2018 at 22:55

All good choices,  no doubt.  But in my part of the world,  there are many favorites,  and you'd get many different answers.

But for me personally,  if it's a dry fly,  and only allowed 3 types of material,  it would definitely be the Renegade.

If it's a nymph,  the Pheasant Tail.  It is probably the most fish producing nymph in Colorado

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Dave Medlyn on 04/09/2018 at 14:30

For me it has to be the Bibio. It fishes dry or wet in river or lake and it catches trout, salmon and sea trout. It has to be the one fly for all
Cheers
Dave

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Steven Sinclair on 04/09/2018 at 17:55

Hmmm,

If solely for trout it would be a hare's lug for me. If to cover salmon, seatrout and troots then i'd do with my olds mans modified black pennell.

 :z18

Steven.

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Jim Eddie on 04/09/2018 at 18:49

Pearly Pennell has been my go to fly for the last few seasons

 :z18

Jim

Title: Re: one fly to catch them all
Post by: Kerry Jordan on 11/09/2018 at 20:24

Double badger, or, as my mate says, dreaming, double beaver 😎