What are your must have flies?

[jean.struweg]

Hi

Let's say your flyboxes all got burnt/stolen/abducted by aliens, and you were allowed to replace only the patterns you deem the most important to have for freshwater (stillwater and rivers, trout and yellows,)?

What flies would make your list, and in which colours & sizes?

I hope this gets interesting!

[core fly]

orange hotspot,greenrockworm,brassie,atomic worm,stimulator dry and black wooly bugger.

[amfff]

If it had to happen....

Trout Waters....
Stillwater: Mrs Simpson (Beaded or Non-beaded), DDD, Zak Nymph (Beaded)
River: Zak Nymph, Blue flash Beaded W/B, small Mrs Simpsons any dry fly ant patern, DDD.

later
AMFFF

[Mike Taylor]

Streams: Para RAB, generic black parachute, Generic grizzly parachute, Klink, #14 black jig WB.
Small dams: Olive egg sucking leech, Stimulator, olive WB, black WB, Olive Booby.
Large stillwater: Olive & tan & peach zonkers with stick-on eyes. Olive & brown Boobies

[Circus]

Yellows: Mustard caddis, beige caddis, green rock worm, little black hotspot mayfly

Trout: bloodworm, pancora wooly bugger, ZAK, green GRHE, white death, black wb, DDD

[Bernard]

Ishigaki Kebari, Ishigaki Kebari,Ishigaki Kebari...

(http://www.tenkarabum.com/tenkara-flies.html)

[Bernard]

always tough.. smallstream trout: Elk & CDC + GRHE variations.

Although no matter where I fish, for whatever species, I always seem to have a Kaufmann Stimulator with me... even if its mysteriously lying in the saltbox!

[Korrie]

Ishigaki Kebari, Ishigaki Kebari,Ishigaki Kebari...

(http://www.tenkarabum.com/tenkara-flies.html)

basically a North country spider/soft hackle.

[Bernard]

basically a North country spider/soft hackle.

But a little bit older...

[gazzarowan]

stillwater trout: cdc bugger; mrs simpson; dragon nymph; grhe variation; olive and orange baitfish
yellowfish: grhe variations weighted; bloodworm; chartreuse caddis; v-rib caddis/rockworm; hopper
streams: para adams; stimulator; beaded natural nymphs; small hoppers