hi guys
just wondering what do ye think is the best all round dry fly or any other flys ye like be they wet or dry..for me it would have to be a green mills glory.a great fly to use when nothing is happening and in the summer a silver sedge is always a great dry fly when the sedges are going..anyway would just like to here yer veiws on different flys..
regards
sean

Sean, do you mean a Greenwells Glory?
The best all round dry would probably be a Klinkhamer as it represents all the hatching duns.

ya sorry about that greg,i always get mixed up!!sur ive my username wrong aswell
ah ive never fished the klinkhammer,does it fish on the surface or just slightly below it??

Klinkhamers seem to come in all sorts of colours - which one in particular Greg?

If I was confronted with a trout stream previously unknown to me, anywhere in the world, and I was restricted to a dry fly, I think the first fly I would try would be a #16 Adams.

Mind you, Canon Greenwell's Glory is not a bad all-round dry either.

As an all-round fly my choice would be a simple CDC Emerger. For a river I'd agree with Vagabond with the Adams.

Ginger Quill, Winged Blue Dun and Black Gnat are ever-present in my box, and where I come from we see a lot of yellow stone fly, so Yellow Sally both with and without the red tag can often bring lazy fish on.

i agree with the ginger quill but i think the blue dun only works in the early stages of the season eg february to april,after that its all mayfly,sedges and you can fish a sort of nymph upstream in the summer aswell..

The klinkhamer,Ginger quill and the Adams, But nothing beats knowing your patch and matching the hatch!

if I had to pick one, it would depend on which country I was in (here or back in the states). Over here it would have to be a #18 olive haystack (though an olive klink would be up there too) on the surface. Back home it would be a #16 CDC and elk in tan or olive.

Subsurface would be tough. I really like fishing midge larva to sighted fish on freestones and killer bugs/scud on the chalkstreams. To pick one fly though, it would be a small olive hares ear (some with a bead and flash back) in probably an 18 again.

For just plain fishyness in all conditions though, a black wooly bugger can be tough to beat. Drift it, strip it, jig it. It can be a lot of things.

Thanks,
Rick

I preferr either the hares ear or cream body, the ones with anthron work best as it is translucent.

Sean, they fish just in and on the surface....

orite ok...

my overall favourite fly for small waters has got to be a size12/14 black buzzer with painted cheeks. absolute destruction, never been much of a dry kinda person unless im in the mood or unless its daddy hatch time

i wouldnt use much buzzers now myself,its mainly sedges in the summer with me and from february to april it would be a blue dun or a coachmans maybe and a few spinners and then in may its gotta be a articficial dry mayfly or a grey wolf which represents a spent mayfly.

If I had to restrict myself to one fly, for all species and on all types of water, then there is no doubt...the natural muddler minnow. (on a size 10 longshank).

never fished it emma...oh ya a coachmans can be a great dry fly aswell mainly in the dark but it can be good in the day aswell..

On my local i would go for the black knat, or a small monty unweighted and olive dun

River - Partridge & Orange (size 14)
Stillwater - Black buzzer
Salmon - Willie Gunn
Sea trout - Silver stoats tail