yir best flee of 2014

[bibio1]

my best fly was a soldier snatcher which was a revelation on a couple of lochs. the fly in the photo was chewed to buggery but continued to catch.

What was yours?

[corsican dave]

sorry to labour the point, but definitely this well-chewed ear-plug popper for aliens. I must've caught over 40 on this pattern so far. this one's done me for 20+!
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on a (slightly) more conventional note: a peach booby fished on a fast sinker. accounted for my best wild brownie and a thumping great crucian out in spain  :

[Bobfly]

Sparse Clan Chiefy sort of thing ....

[Wildfisher]

Not sure how I missed this .............................   :?

Not an easy question again, but I'd guess if I had to choose I'd go for a hot spot pheasant tail nymph with tungsten bead on jig hook or ElkZilla which was an outstanding dry fly.

[SoldierPmr]

Strangely enough this year goes to a size 12 GRHE the bloody thing looks a mess but seems to work.

[Rabmax]

It's a hard one to answer as i try to match the hatch or use a fly that works in certain conditions.Probably my flash-back PTN with pink thorax won but there was quite a few runner-up patterns.The Utah killer bug,Renegade nymph,Olive nymph & Black spiders were all up there too.Been tying loads of PTN's the last few days for next year.Cheers All

[haresear]

A sparsely tied dirty duster, size 16 was my best dry fly.

Best nymph was the wee brown wire nymph, as usual, size 16.

Alex

[Rabmax]

my best fly was a soldier snatcher which was a revelation on a couple of lochs. the fly in the photo was chewed to buggery but continued to catch.

What was yours?

I had a few very good days fishing something that looked like your fly there.I was out one day in windy low water conditions the fish were refusing everything i through at them.It took me a while to figure out that something orange/brown colour was getting blown onto the river.When i went home i tied up a few palmered orange/brown things.It slayed fish for a wee while after that.Cheers All

[Rabmax]

A sparsely tied dirty duster, size 16 was my best dry fly.

Best nymph was the wee brown wire nymph, as usual, size 16.

Alex

I have also been tying some brown wire nymphs too. Basically a copy of my hot-spot PTN's but more durable than using pheasant tail.Hopefully they will work as good.Can't see why they shouldn't work.Cheers

[Hoolet]

As usual the big Loch Ordie, size 8's and 10's......sometimes couldn't rip it through the waves fast enough!

Hoolet.