That' an easy one but six still seems like an awful lot of patterns.For my
trout fishing I could get by with GRHE, EHC and parachute adams. They
imitate almost every hatch I encounter on my home water From tiny size 22
baetis, huge size 8 green drakes to the myriad of stones and caddis. If I
was to add searun cutts and coho to the mix. I would add rolled muddlers ,
clousers and a mickey finn. These three catch fish in both fresh and in the
salt all year round. But I have to admit that I do 90%of fishing for the
cutts and coho with the rolled muddler. A truely versitile style of dress.
You can dress it down to imitate all forms of minnows and fry or dress it up
in bright colors and flash and it becomes a great attractor for non feeding
fall salmon
>From: Kent Lufkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: WAFF fly pattern poll
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:27:27 -0800
>
>As a Christmas present, my wife gave me a wonderful book titled 'The
>Longest Silence - A Life in Fishing' by Thomas McGuane. In the
>chapter 'Unfounded Opinions', he writes:
>
>"...I asked the greatest trout fisherman of my era, who is himself an
>out-of-control proliferator of equipment and technical doo-dads, what
>percentage of his annual catch would remain if he were reduced to
>Adamses and Gold-Ribber Hare's Ear nymphs. His answer: "Certainly
>over ninety percent." When pressed about the staggering variety of
>patterns available in his fly shop, he said, "I don't sell flies to
>fish."
>
>This admission reminded me of a similar conversation I'd had several
>years ago with one of my flyfishing mentors who maintained that he
>can successfully fish for trout* anywhere in Washington's fresh
>waters* with just six fly patterns.
>
>So here's a question for you: if you could have just six patterns in
>your fly box, which would they be?
>
>Please send me your list of 6 (or less if you feel confident!) as an
>offline reply to this email by clicking here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
>
>I'll tally your responses and post the top six in the Fly Patterns
>section of the new WAFF web site when it debuts in a few weeks.
>
>(* To start out, let's just consider trout patterns for freshwater
>streams and lakes - not those for steelhead, salmon, or for searun
>trout fished in salt water. If this poll proves popular, we'll do new
>polls for those categories later.)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kent Lufkin
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