What Are The Best Flies You Can Recommend?

[ntsougri]

Hi everyone. What are the best flies that you can recommend for Alberta?
I think most fly fisherman have there go to flies they like to use the most.

This is my list of my most popular flies I like to use:

1. Stimulator
2. Parachute Adams
3. Paradrake (Green Drake)
4. Irresistible (Humpy)
5. Royal Coachman
6. Blue Winged Olive
7. Elk Hair Caddis
8. Terrestrials (Ant/Beetle)
9. Copper John Nymph (rubber legs)
10. Prince Nymph
11. Stonefly Nymph
12. Clouser
13. Wooly Bugger

Please respond with your selection of flies you like to use. This could become a very interesting & popular post if we get lots of fly suggestions.

If you want to see the Barry Mitchell and Vic Bergman fly recommendations check out the link to my website below. I have a new story on my website called The Most Popular Fly Fishing Flies. I also created an Alberta Fly Fishing Hatch and Pattern Chart you can access on the site.

http://flyfishingexplorer.com/teaching/the-most-popular-fly-fishing-flies-3/

Cheers & Tight Lines,

Nickolas
flyfishingexplorer.com

[Dragless]

Hands down green weenie number 1! Just kiddin Size 18 hares ear

[Flieguy]

1 it's a secret
2 it's a secret
3 it's a secret
4 copper john
5 it's a secret
6 it's a secret
7 elk hair caddis
8 it's a secret
9 slump buster
10 bucktails
11 chironomids
12 eggs

[Lornce]

The ones that imitate what the trout are feeding on.

[32-40win]

The one they'll actually not turn down that day.

[Jack fish hunter]

Mosquito. As dumb as that might sound.

[bobalong]

I mostly just fish stillwaters now and although dry flies are fun to fish I find that dry fly fishing is only "the best" method maybe 5 % of the time. Most of the time the fish are feeding deeper in the water column. I have played around with many flies over the years and tie my own. Probably 99% of the time I fish leeches, chironomids, or scuds in varying colors and sizes. If I do fish a dry it is an elk hair caddis, humpy or parachute adams.

When I fished rivers I had the most success with a hopper dropper. Foam hopper and tung stud dropper.