Flies for next season

[haresear]

I'm having trouble here trying to make up 15 flies for rivers.  I can't get past -

Copper nymph (Hare Lug dubbing)
Hare Lug (with and without copper bead).
Black Spider (wire body)
Greenwell Spider.

But I never have many problems deciding what to use!

Bob, you forgot that old Tweed style standby - the Clouser Minnow

Alex

[Tweed]

Bit of a loch bias here I'm afraid - something I hope to remedy next season.

Blue Zulu (flouro red flash and pearl rib) - size 10
Bibio (pearl rib and gp tippet tail) - size 12
Loch Ordie - 10
Claret Dabbler - 10
Pearly Dabbler - 12
Olive Dabbler - 10
Claret Bumble - 12
Olive Bumble - 12
Black Ke-He - 12
Black pennel (pinch of black marabou behind the hackle) - 12
Gold Head Hare's Ear - 12
CDC hare's ear shuttlecock emerger - 14
CDC bibio hopper - 12
Black hopper - 14
Black & pearl superglue buzzer - 14

I'd be more than happy with that little lot for a season - makes me wonder why I insist on carrying 4 boxes full of flies that I never use :?

[Wildfisher]

Immature Bluebottle
Blackbirds Fancy.

You Blantyre lot are almost as bad as that Cambuslang and Coatbridge crowd.  :lol:

[Black-Don]

Thanks for all the replies. Hopefully I can mibbee tie some up and vary me box a wee bit. It's just I'm fed up with having a fly tiers flee box with loads of different patterns and would like to cut it down to a fisherman's box with fewer patterns and maybe more variation in size.  :?

[Ian_M]

I'm fed up with having a fly tiers flee box with loads of different patterns and would like to cut it down to a fisherman's box with fewer patterns

That answers the question I ask myself when I search my box for a fly - "where did all this sh**e come from and why did I tie them"

[Wildfisher]

That answers the question I ask myself when I search my box for a fly - "where did all this sh**e come from and why did I tie them"

I think this is a problem that comes about through  winter fly tying. It can divorce the process from fishing too much. I tend now to tie flies during  the season, a few at a time, that way I tie what I need and any new stuff can be used the next day and not forgotten about. Winter tyings are usually known flies I know I'll use a lot of:  ptns, wire nymphs, olive parachutes, klinks etc