Your Confidence Box

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The article was called "Confidence Flies". It was on page 32 of the spring 2012 Fly Tyer magazine. I got it in the mail a week ago. The competition was World Youth Fly Fishing Championships, 2007, sponsored by State College Pennsylvania. There is around 10 recipes for "generic" confidence flies.

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The article was called "Confidence Flies". It was on page 32 of the spring 2012 Fly Tyer magazine. I got it in the mail a week ago. The competition was World Youth Fly Fishing Championships, 2007, sponsored by State College Pennsylvania. There is around 10 recipes for "generic" confidence flies.

PS...After I re-read the article, it doesn't say he won, but it makes it sound like he did well. Still that isn't the point.

[KCRIVERRAT]

Kansas City Sports Show

Trout pond

Night Crawlers

[Outside Bend]

Trout- Here.

Dries- Caddis pattern (X-Caddis, Elk Hair, Dancing Caddis, whatever), & Parachute Adams.

Nymphs- Soft Hackle (no specific pattern), rubberlegs

Streamer- Blonde mohair leech

Warmwater-

Dries- Sneaky Pete, deer-hair slider

Subsurface- clouser minnow, near-nuff crayfish, wooly bugger

Trout- out west

Dries- Elk Hair Caddis, Madame X

Nymphs- PMD emerger, zug bug

Streamer- Bow River Bugger, brown/yellow

But a lot of my fun stems from trying new stuff- I know the old standbys work, that's why their my confidence patterns.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Here I would have to go with these on most of Missouri's streams targeting trout.,

ElkHair and the G Gnat

Hares ear and Prince

dark clouser

The reality is it would depend on the time of the year and the water. I would be carrying a completly different set on the Deschutes or Taney.

Did the author mention "Fishermens luck".

[Al Agnew]

Geez, Wayne and I think alike...same flies except that I'd replace his streamer with my rabbit strip tie.

For Montana waters...Griffith's Gnat and a foam hopper for dries, flashback Hare's Ear and green bodied soft hackle for nymphs, and my rabbit strip streamer.

However...although I would be reasonably confident that I could catch fish on these flies if they were all I was limited to, I don't think that limiting yourself to that extent is all that smart. Trout really do key on certain foods at certain times, and to maximize your chances of catching fish you really need a few more dries, a few more nymphs, and at least a few different colors of whichever streamer you like. In dry flies it's always important to match any hatch that the fish are rising to (within reason...I've seen plenty of times when the right fly but in a bigger size worked better), and in nymphs and streamers, size and color can be very important.

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Geez, Wayne and I think alike...same flies except that I'd replace his streamer with my rabbit strip tie.

For Montana waters...Griffith's Gnat and a foam hopper for dries, flashback Hare's Ear and green bodied soft hackle for nymphs, and my rabbit strip streamer.

However...although I would be reasonably confident that I could catch fish on these flies if they were all I was limited to, I don't think that limiting yourself to that extent is all that smart.

Come on Al....I'm stuck in Illinois. Don't po, po my fun

[Jack Jones]

I'll go with this:

#14 GRHE

#14 green holographic crackleback

#16 grey or tan scud

#18 parachute adams (fluorescent chute because I can't see for crap)

#10 black woolly bugger

[MikeH]

I could probably cut down to only these on most streams but I'm too much of a fly junkie to ever attempt it.

#8 polish nymph

#16 biot nymph

#14 Soft hackle hare's ear

#12 Klinkhammer

#16 CDC & Elk

-Mike

[ozark trout fisher]

Current River:

Dries: #14 Ausable Wulff, #18 Adams

Wets: Tri-color Glo-bug, #14 Pheasant Tail Nymph

Streamer: #10 Olive Woolly Bugger