No matter now many flish we have caught over the years or how many places we have fished as the light breaks through at dawn. No other man is stirring, the dawn chorus s just about to creak. We always do it we sit there going through our fly boxes at the beginning of each season and say to ourselves. "i will only carry the flies i use this season"
O.k so i have said it every year for longer than i care to rememebr these days. But whta flies would i use if i should acttually manage to go through the endless cases and go from there?
Well i have this opportunity forced upon me here in canada. All rods have been broken, lost, sold, flies are floating around toronot somewhere. My fault should have grabbed them when i left the hotel that morning. so i though that i would give you a good little starter list and how they are fished.  Starting with the fly that i feel has tae more saltwater and indeed freshwater species than any other single fly. The clouser: This fly as i have written before was designed and concieved by the great Bob Clouser. It is fishied in mid water and depending on the strip that is implemented sinks or creeps up through the water. This is caused by the lead eyes tied to the undside of this fly giving the unique characteristic f fishing upside down. with the hook point facing upwards instead. I have tied litterally thousands of these for people all over the country, in varying colours i currently tie them in over 370 variations. This may seem md but everyone has there own colours that work on there local marks. Crazy chalie: This was oroginaly classed as a bonefish fly fshing in the saltwater flats in cuba or other tropical climes. again like the clouser this fly has the ability of fishing upside down ad idea low water bottom feeding fly. I took a set of these trout fishing last years and had a couple of cracking 12lb brown trout on this very fly. Also the colous i chose was orange and also bright dayglo pink. Deciever: This is one of the original, saltwter flies originaly designed and concieced by :lefty kreh" quite simply a fly fishing god. This fly is designed to imiate a bait fish in any ammount of water to the point that last year i was tieing mega decievers that were 10 inches long for an american whom was going shark fishing in south africa. That was also fishied in the channel for blue sharks where they have caught fish up to 140lb in weight on fly rods. Hollow fleye: this is possable the best fly i have seen or fished for bulk and castability for the sheer size. Designed and created by :Bob Popovic". This is a fly that is sparsely tied but in such a way that the hair is reverse tied building up bulk though not adding too much weight to the fly in the first instance. Below i have added a pictire of the hollow fly that has been tied in the flat wing style. No matter the distance that is required this fly will nail it. All of the colour variants that i have worked through recently are amazing. going from white and greens through pink, black and back again.





This design was created for a laugh in the first instance but then they have been sent through to ireland for bass fishing over there and bang 2 recoed class irish bass taken on the same fly. If i could only carry a few flies then these would definately be on the list i feel. tight lines all.