Ok Kent and fellow listers,
I'm in on this one. Here's my list:
1) Adams parachute
2) Stimulator
3) Elkhair caddis
4) Easy Rider (I know, tuting my own horn here, but this fly worked quite
well for me last summer!)
5) #12 beadhead zugbug
6) Black-bead/body gold ribbed hare's ear
Just a couple of notes on the above flies:
I'm not sure how this works, but it seems to me that when I believe in a
fly's ability to catch trout it somehow does. And when things are slow and
I throw every fly in my box at them, nothing seems to work.
Yes, I need to believe, my friend. I need to feel the power of belief, the
power to decieve, the power to fool the devil himself, and yes, lo the
clever trout with a brain the size of a BB. The very trout himself who
refuses all offerings and leaves me skunked at the end of a long day on the
river...
Opps, I seem to have gotten off track there...
What I meant to say is that on #5, the zugbug, I've developed a trust to
catch trout when all others fail. Don't know how else to explain it, but
the zug usually will come through for me.
On #6, the black-bead/body gold ribbed hare's ear, I tied this up after
finding black mayfly nymph's in the Twisp River last summer. It turned out
to be a killer fly in the other rivers I fished as well. I took my biggest
rainbow of the year in the Yakima and Snoqualmie with it. Maybe its luster
will fade in the next year or so, but I believe in it, my friend, I
believe...
So let not the fear of failure keep you from casting forth your flies into
the waters of Washington State in search of wandering trout. For yours is
the power of faith. Faith. Faith in your fly.
Preaching to the converted and
stepping down from the pulpit now,
Danny McMillin
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>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!)
>Thanks,
>
>Kent Lufkin
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