What is your favorite or go to fly on your local water?

Mine is split between the Parachute Blue Wing Olive and the Prince Nymph.

Blue wing and sulfur

Depends on where I am fishing, when I am fishing, what I am fishing for.

My summer favorite is a little ant I tie. I take Rainy's cylinder foam and cut it to length and tie in a piece of bright foam or yarn on top. I tie in spanflex legs that make it look like a mini Chernobyl. I tie it in all ant colors and in sizes 16 & 18. The little streams I frequent, the trout go crazy for them.

Muddler minnow.  When all else fails and I can't match the hatch, it's time to break out a Muddler minnow variant. So good it almost feels like using live bait.

Various crab and shrimp patterns. I rarely use baitfish patterns.

It all depends where I'm fishing across the state of FL and what I'm fishing for. I have no 'go to' fly.

I usually start with an olive Wooly Bugger. I've caught a ton of fish on it and it's my go to fly.

Pheasant tail soft hackle.

Parachute Adams or Elk Hair Caddis up top, Hares Ear Nymph underwater. Can usually pull something out of the streams here with one of those.

My favorite combo is a #16 beadhead hare's ear with a #14 unweighted prince nymph on a dropper.

Stayner ducktail.  Its a minnow imitator.  It has saved several trips from the skunk.

chartreuse sneaky pete

pan fish cannot resist

For local searun cuts, Aug-Oct: Borden Special

Variations of the kwan/toad...

Mostly this but with a pink marabou tail:



As seen here...

Parachute PMD with a hares ear dropper is a great producer BUT I got to tell you 20/18/16 Grifith Gnat with red wrap eye is a real sleeper .....you can try every thing in the box and when that fails tie on the smallest and work up the Gnat  sizes and you will bust some lips! ...even waters /times that are mostly wet fly

Bear

There is a local guy around here that uses pretty much nothing but a Grifith Gnat with a pheasant tail dropper or a wooly bugger. It's a rare occasion when you pass him he is not hooked up..

 

I've always loved the blue quill dry. Fun to tie too. It's one of the first hatches here too.
Hendricksons, Green Drake, Light Cahills all have thier place. As far as dries go

I've caught more on a olive/black wolly bugger w/ a maribow tail than anything else.
Bead head hares ear for nymphs and I curse the damn 28 trico hatches. I cant see
the eyelet anymore

cone head bugger in white.

And where might I be able to get some of these?
Hell, I'd eat them! :)

#4 or 6 weighted yellow stone with #20 bead head zugbug.
Stones are year round in every size.

Fall winter = egg  pattern with a bead head prince dropper

Trout are on the bottom 90% of the time, so are my flies.

This czech and polish nymphs are killer too

Post wing Adams or hairs ear dries.

Anything gray presented properly.

Surf Candy if I'm out in the salt.

Just tied these up for fall:

Parachute Adams for dry.  Bitch Creek (ugly bastard) for nymph.

Most of my fly fishing is for trout, a very selective feeder so many different flies are used. If I had to pick a few of my favorite flies they are as follows: spring time- parachute adams. Summer- hopper dropper set up with a hares ear as the dropper. Fall- various streamers, ants an other terrestrials. It really all just depends on what is hatching or not hatching.

depends on when, where and for what.

Smallies in the spring I slay em on red eye leeches and schultyzs s3 sculphins stripped through their holding spots. In the summer they hit great on boogle bugs, stacked hair frog divers and murdich minnows and dragon flies. Falls program is back to streamers swung slowly through runs.

Carp we knock em dead with Mulberry flies in the springish time, rest of the year small minnow streamers, carp darts and other locally tied carp flies.

Steelhead is def a senyo AI. Caught way more steelhead swinging an AI then any other fly for steelhead. If I carry a dozen flies for a day of steelheading 8 will be AI's of different colors etc. Rest wil likely be a couple of intruder style flies and a couple of steeches.

Salmon by far come on egg patterns during the day and at night they come on bueter crytal bullets and some real simple streamers (black bunny strip tied on a #6wet/nymph hook like a diachi 1550, with a small dubbin head). Those take litterally 30 seconds to tie apiece and will kill em at night.

Small trout I do good on elk wing caddis, BWO's and various other mayflies, hoppers (late summer) and small nymphs and streamers.

Unicorn Brown trout! gotta go with tommy lynch's drunk and disorderly deceiver, a circus peanut or a mad pup. Gotta throw "meat" to catch the big un's.

If I just need to catch a fish or if my daughter is with me I tie on a Tequilia streamer, basically a fat wooly bugger with yellow and blk marabou tail, copper catcus chenile body and yellow crazy legs. great high volume catching fly.

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White Bett's Trim Gim Popper.

Wolly bugger/Egg sucking leach.

If I had to have one fly that would be my choice.

Pine squirrel leech.

Straight deadly. Simple to tie.

Pine Squirrel Leech