If you had just 12 flies for a year's trout fishing...

[just dave]

What would they be? Forget sizes, just what flies?

Mine~

Hare's ear nymph
Olive nymph
Pheasant tail nymph
golden stone nymph
tan elk hair caddis
hare's ear soft hackle
pt soft hackle
Adams dry
BWO dry
rusty spinner
brown woolly bugger
black ant

I don't use attractors much, or streamers. And, that list would probably change tomorrow.

 

[Bill Sell]

Hey dave.
twelve fly's that sure is a lot of fly's.
I can get by the whole season with four or five patterns.

 

[Fly Tier]

Size 16 Sulphur Parachute.
Size 18 Baetis Cripple
Size 8 Green Drake
Size 10 Rusty
Size 14 Rusty
Size 20 Rusty
Size 10 Iso Comparadun
Size 16 Hendrickson Emerger
Size 18 Sulpur Emerger
Size 22 Baetis Emerger
Size 6 Variant style with Grizzly Hackle, Rusty body for night
Size 12 March Brown Emerger

 

[just dave]

Bill, would four out of those five be caddis? :applaudit

 

[TheHeron]

12 Flies

Hare's Ear Nymph
Pheasant Tail Nymph
Woolley Bugger
LaFontaine Sparkle Emerger
Scud
Rusty Spinner
Iris Caddis
BWO emerger
Dorado Hare's Ear
Sulphur Sparkle Dun
Isonychia Emerger
Lawson's Partridge Spent Caddis

 

[Harry]

Pheasant Tail Nymph
Hares Ear Nymph
Pheasant Tail Soft Hackle
Hares Ear Soft Hackle
Elk Hair Caddis
LaFontaine Sparkle Pupa
Pale Morning Dun
Western Hairwing Green Drake
Blue Wing Olive
Philadelphia Lawyer (trico)
Copper John
Sulpher Parachute

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"Quit Wishing" "Go Fishing"

 

[rford]

12 Black Zuddler Minnows size 4 and 6

 

[theartoflee]

12 Black Zuddler Minnows size 4 and 6

Would that be 24 flies Ralph...

 

[Fly Tier]

My twelve flies listed in my earlier post MUST be tied in Sri Lanka or Senszen China

 

[oasis man]

Here's what I use...

Since I do 98% of my fishing on the Delaware (WB,EB, MS), here is what I find I use all the time. (Somehow, I still drag around another 500 flies that I will never use...just "in Case")
1. #14 Hendrickson emrger
2. #14 rusty spinner (antron wings, material from the Book Mailer)
3. #16 sulphur cripple
4. #18 sulphur cripple
5. # 16 sumphur emerger
6. #18 sulphur emerger
7. # 18,20,22 24 bwo parachute (orange post)
8. #18,20, 22,24 rusty spinners (again antron wings..easier to see
9. # 16 ant
10. #20,22,24 trico spinners
11. # 16 tan caddis LaFontaine sparkle emerger
12. ...and for about five days the first week in June, a collection of Green Drake Duns and spinners, in case I hit the lottery on the Mainstem (its been about five years now since I have been in the right place at the right time...but I remember what it was like. Like the old joke that ends..."tonight's the night!!)
OM

 

[Andy B]

Well for me it would be the following flies:

1) Pheasent Tail Nymph tied only with Copper wire, no thread

2) Black Woolly Bugger

3) Brown Woolly Bugger

5) Ken Lockwood Streamer

6) Captain wet fly

7) Romaine wet fly

8) Blue Professor wet fly

9) The Black Turkey wet fly

10) Gravel Bed wet Fly

11) Fontianlis Fin wet fly

12) Adams Compardun Dry

These are all I need for the entire year to catch fish constantly. Now this would be boring if this had to be the list for the rest of my life. My question to all is why limit yourself.

Andy B

 

[Scott]

OK I'll bite.

Dries:

Adams parachute
Sulphur Catskill
Sulphur CDC emerger
Hendrickson Inverted Dun
Griffith's Gnat
Royal Wulff Trude

Streamers:

Gray Ghost
Yellow Devil

Nymphs:

Hybrid nymph
Copper John
Pheasant tail

But sorry - I need more than 12, don't I:

Terrestrials:

Black ant
Cricket
Yellow Grasshopper (small)
Yellow Jacket
Inchworm

I hope it's just 12 types, not limiting sizes or quantity!

It's interesting to see what everyone else has listed!

 

[Rolemodel]

From my experience on the Stream fishing NJ ,N.E-S.E Pa this is my Selection.

Elk Wing Tan Caddis
Caddis Larva-Cream and Brown
Midge Pupa
Midge Adult
Hares Ear
Pheasant Tail
Scud
Adams Dry
BWO
Trico
Woolly Bugger
Muddler Minnow

 

[McAwful]

FOR NJ

Soft Hackle
Hares Ear
Prince
Gold Bead Head Sparkle Olive or Root Beer Bugger
Tan or Gray Scud
Slow Water Caddis
Lemon Cahill
Parachute BWO
Patriot
Cream Wulff 10 down to 24
Foam Beetle
Orange Blosson Special