RJFlowers Loc: Montana

What are your favorite, and most productive flies to tie? I have had good luck with a streamer of my own creation - The SuperYoopoer, and with the Au Sable Bomber. I love tying Dave's Hopper, and they look great. Black gnats have been productive for me as well. I've gotten good brookie bites on the Prince Nymph, and on olove wooly buggers.

I was so surprised with the Super Yoopoer. It was made before I really knew anything about tying flies, or what a streamer was. I just thought about what a shiner looked like, and used grizzly hackle for the sides, witt cream dubbing for the underbody, some tungsten wire wrapped around the middle of a number 6 , two times extra long hook shank,, furnace hackle and peacock hurl for the back, white dear tail for the belly. I completed the head with black thread, and fake Jungle Cock eyes. I fished it behind our power house (hydro-electric plant fed bu a large canal between Lake Superior, and the St. Mary's river in Sault Ste. Marie, MI), and was amazed how much like a minnow this thing looked. It got hit by steelhead, which came from deep to hit it just under the water surface. Talk about feeling on top of the world...

So what are your favorite Flies, and for what type of fly fishing?

seeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

I have really good results with a Stimulator in orange. Fish it dry , it's a mayfly and a hopper. It fishes almost as well as a wet. And after it gets really beat up it works great as a streamer. And smallmouth love them.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

The pink squirrel is my go-to fly for the Driftless Area around here. It's a bead head that only works in this area. It was developed by John Bedke from Baraboo, WI. Fly fishermen either love it or hate it. You know how that goes.

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

Don’t know yet, haven’t fly fished in 40years and that was a $3. Fiberglass, garage sale, red rod with one of those spring loaded automatic reels and a .90 cent disc of poppers catching small bass in Oklahoma. Just got gifted 7/8 Berkley and a 5/6 scientific angler rods. Picked up a 7/8 Okuma slv for $35 and 5/6 lost creek reels. found some 7wt Rio gold line for $45. Waiting on another half price deal on some 5wt. Enough local shops/guides posting what’s catching. Know late summer there’s a grasshopper feast on the North Platte. They fish up to 3 different flies at once on the 7wt. I’ll get stuff figured out by spring hopefully and will switch oar blades to cutthroats….

Jeremy Loc: America

Try a German Cockroach pattern bigger than a cricket but same color.

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

sinking-wooley bugger Floating-Natural deer hair irresistible with black and white barred hackle Salt water-2 to 3 inch herring streamer I tie myself.

bugrodbob Loc: Tumwater WA

In the rivers:
nymph-hares ear
Dry-butch caddis
Lakes:
Woolly Bugger with soft hackle trailer.

bself2 Loc: va beach

caught over 300 brookies and cut throat(catch and release) in Wyo on a 6 day pack in: used only elk hair caddis (dry). easy fly to tie.

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

Easy to fish as well. More forgiving than most.

DoryMan Loc: Southern Maine

I tie squid imitations for fluke fishing, and baby squid sabiki rig (aka mackerel tree) for macks. (See my icon.). I have tied a number of crappie jigs that are supposed to be the bees knees for crappie, waiting to give them a go - can’t wait.

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

Well, there's the ones I've caught fish with, the ones that my buddies tell me I SHOULD be catching fish with....because they do, ..lol... the ones I THINK should be getting bit, and then there are DOZENS that have "sorta" produced....a take on occasion, a solid hookup on a few fish, but nothing to get excited about or write home about.

For the 5 or 6 fly boxes I have chock full, I'm afraid I have to admit that I utilize only about a dozen patterns/sizes with any regularity. Mostly beadhead type nymphs like Copper John's and Prince Nymphs, foam hoppers, San Juan worms, wooly buggers in several colors, salmonfly patterns, hare's ears, egg, ant and horsefly patterns.
While I have had pretty decent luck with it on steelhead, I must say that it was the name of one, that got me using it in the first place.... the "egg-sucking bunny leech, size#8 or #10, black w/reddish pink head
If I have to state a "go-to", it would be a yellow or pinkish foam hopper with a beadhead Prince Nymph with white wings, dropper.....works in the river using an 18"-24" dropper, or in a lake (even trolling it) with a 36" (or longer) dropper. My PB Brown Trout of almost 6lbs came on that setup.... bit the dropper. Same day, a 4+lb bit the hopper, probably why I keep using them together, it doubles your chances.

BTW...I don't tie my own flies, have too many friends that do and they constantly need something I have the skills for, so trading woodworking for flies has been my acquisition m.o., thus the 2-4 hundred+ (?) I have to choose from. Many duplicates and many have yet to hit water.....a testimonial to the old adage....."So many lures, so little time" that so many of us "fisherman/collector" types embrace.