Whats in your fly box?

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

Well fellas and ladies too, any pics of the fly box and whats your most successful? And do you prefer bought or home tied flies? Me i use both but have a lot of success on my own tied patterns, love a breeze and stripping sedges or slowly fished dries and seeing the trout take off the surface

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

This one is very productive early on in the season for brown, sea and rainbow trout, especially sea trout they hammer it, just a home tied pattern

[Wolfdog91 6,920]

Actually need to get back into fly-fishing. Used to tie my own flies  and all that when I was around 12....great now I need to go and try to dig up all my old threads and what not

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

A comparison from a popular fly to one i tie in a nymph pattern thats deadly on the left

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

A few different versions of hares ear nymphs home tied too, very successful for trout of all kinds.

[steg 609]

My go to on the River Wear in Co. Durham for a bit of night time seatrout fly-fishing. Nothing flash but pleasing to catch on your own. 1/2 " to 2" in length,  in plastic, ally and brass tube gets me a few. Shiftwork limiting me getting out as much as I'd like. Bags and draws full of fly tying gear.. roll on retirement.

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

57 minutes ago, steg said:

My go to on the River Wear in Co. Durham for a bit of night time seatrout fly-fishing. Nothing flash but pleasing to catch on your own. 1/2 " to 2" in length,  in plastic, ally and brass tube gets me a few. Shiftwork limiting me getting out as much as I'd like. Bags and draws full of fly tying gear.. roll on retirement.

What a bar of silver, how much did that weigh?

[neil r 1,844]

These are some of mine . I tend to use either the f flies in olive , black or pink or sparkle gnats on the rivers with the sparkle gnat and pink fly being pretty good for grayling when they’re in season 

[neil r 1,844]

The other little box I carry . The one with the yellow tag is a good grayling fly aswell , think it might be called treacle parkin but I might have got that mixed up with one of the others 

[Lenmcharristar 9,727]

2 hours ago, neil r said:

The other little box I carry . The one with the yellow tag is a good grayling fly aswell , think it might be called treacle parkin but I might have got that mixed up with one of the others 

Nice selection, i use the f flies too theyre great for a rise, never fished for grayling as we dont have them here, although ig love to have a go at them, and charr too

[neil r 1,844]

F flies are so simple looking but they just seem to work wherever I’ve used them , even done well with size 18-20 ones on stillwaters . Never had a char even though the odd place I’ve fished has had them , in fact I can’t ever remember seeing one come out of those fisheries either , the nearest I can remember is a char cross called a sparctic . As for grayling the Calder and ribble near me are wick with them . Over Christmas I was hammering them on the Calder on the stickfloat , sometimes getting 40+ in a couple of hours from a couple of oz to a couple of lb’s .