Crap Flies

[Malcolm]

So we've all got our favourites but there's some flies out there that are totally crap. They might work brilliantly for your buddy but for you they're as much use as tits on a bull. Here's mine:

Pheasant tail nymph
Anything with fluorescent green in it.

Malcolm 

[Wildfisher]

Any fly with Peter or Ross in it 

[drumgerry]

Is it not just "DEE-OL"?  That's how I imagine it anyway but I don't speak welsh funnily enough so I'm probably completely wrong.  As to flies - partridge and orange spider - could never get that to work for me.

Gerry

[sandyborthwick]

Floating snail, pure Sh*te as far as I'm concerned never even had a fish look at it.

Sandy B.O.

[scotfly]

Almost anything tied on a metal hook  :oops:
Particularly a Diawl (Dee-owl) Bach and the Karens Nymph!

[just_steven]

The Alexandria, Teal Blue and Silver, Detached Body Daddy, and Allan's Pink Hedgehog! 

Steve

[garryh]

many years ago word spread about an old guy taking good bags of browns from lilithgow loch on a grouse & green.of course everyone rushed of and bought grouse & greens( this was in the days before tying your own was as popular as now).so with almost everyone fishing the loch using the alledged killer and only the odd trout being caught on it the g&g was dismissed as a crap fly.as i was still at school and didn't have that many flies i continued to use it but it was still a crap fly.one day during the school holidays i was fishing away when an old guy came along and asked how i was doing.not a thing i replied.have you tried a grouse &green asked the man,Ive had one on all day i replied.let me see flees son ,when he looked at them he took his fag out of his mouth and burnt the wing and the tail of the grouse&green and told me to move it to the tail of my cast.to cut a long story short i ended up with six fish all on that fly.looking back i can see he had turned it into a sedge pupa ,as he packed up at the end of the night he shouted keep it tae yersel son.i have to admit i did keep it a secret for a while .BUT THE GROUSE &GREEN IS A CRAP FLY

       cheers Garry

[haresear]

Ke-He on lochs and its cousin the Red Tag on rivers for grayling have never done well for me. Mind you, I never use them anymore, so it is hardly surprising.

Alex

[HUMUNGUS]

Diawl Bach & Black Pennel.

[Harpo]

Diawl Bach & Black Pennel.

My Dad fished a lot in the seventies in hill lochs up north and he said he always had a Black Pennel on the bob and it caught most of his Fish.

As for me I can't get to grips with Nymphs in the rivers