Best fly

[jonathan 0]

What fly pattern do you think is the best for river fishing.

Most of the time i fish with a Mallard & Claret

[Guest Fishaben]

Hi there,

have you ever tried midget patterns on warm days, they seem to do well, or nymph's. Never fly fished a river personally but these seem to work on stillwaters.

Ben

[jonathan 0]

Hi there,

have you ever tried midget patterns on warm days, they seem to do well, or nymph's. Never fly fished a river personally but these seem to work on stillwaters.

Ben

I fish nymphs a lot because you all ways get good takes black nat are good as well

[Guest midnight_runner]

black spiders / gold ribed hares ear/yellow sally/blae and black/ the dal bach/greenwell glorie/are all good river flys mate good luck

[Guest rabbiter]

for a dry fly a Adams,and for below surface a pleasant tail

[J Darcy 5,871]

On flowing water i tie a dropper for a Black and peacock, with a greenwells on the point. Size14 both Love the wet fly and once saw my father take a 4lb chub on the point and a dace on the dropper from a fast swim! Also had a great deal of success with the north country spider patterns such as snipe and purple and partridge and orange. For dry i like to use small black "midge" patterns of my own tying. Size 16-20 i find the best. I use a platil tapered cast to get good turn over and mostly use a little 7ft hardy smuggler that i have together with a featherweight and #4 w/f line. A great bit of kit and so easy to handle.

[Guest Fishaben]

for a dry fly a Adams,and for below surface a pleasant tail

 

I agree, I would use a pheasant tail under the surface!

Ben

[Guest rabbiter]

Perhapes on a dropper Ben?

Edited June 22, 2006 by rabbiter

[Guest wilbar]

What fly pattern do you think is the best for river fishing.

Most of the time i fish with a Mallard & Claret

 

 

Where possible I mainly use klinkhammers or variants(size 18). As far as wet flies go I have a soft spot for the coch-y-bonddu (size 10-12)

[Guest ADAM AND HIS DOGS]

point fly black pennel. middel dropper red tag, top dropper kingfisher butcher. for both brown and sea trout.

[Aled 364]

The best fly in the entire world is in my opinion the one in which you've got self confidence in. Its better to fish the "wrong" fly well than to fish the "right" fly badly. All the flies put n here though are good fly's

Tight Lines

Al