What flies would you buy?

[daveenlola]

And another question...I heard i can fish snoqualmie river above the falls year round?? The regs dont say that but i keep hearing diffrent.
 Where else can i get a trout on a fly right now without going over the pass?

[jackelope]

you can fish the south fork along I-90 up below the pass year round. tough fishing for trout in rivers in winter though. the main stem snoqualmie is puking mud and real high...i would assume the forks are too. once the middle fork opens, that is good fishing.
do you have a little boat? or float tube or something? beaver lake in issaquah should be fishing ok right now, but it is not fishable from the bank...there's also a lake on whidbey island that is open year round...lone lake.
rivers won't be open till june 1 mostly.

[daveenlola]

Yea I do have a little boat, Is beaver up on the plateau? Does trolling a fly work pretty good? I imagine you would just need to frift with the wind?

[jackelope]

yes up on the plateau.

i would row or troll with an electric motor slowly and troll a weighted olive wooly bugger SLOW. they recently planted with a lot of bigger than average fish.
the launch is on the far side of the lake across from the state park.

[walt]

Trolling and drifting can both work well.  I like to troll leaches on a sinking line, and drift woolly buggers and damsels on a floater.  Add small split shot to the leader to get the fly to different depths.  The fish will tend to hang out at a certain depth within the water column depending on water temperature.  Also give the flyline a little tug here and there to give the fly action as you go.

[Pathfinder101]

When I was younger I used to just go through fly tying books and tie two or three of anything.  I also know that I still have a lot of those things in my vest, and they have never been used.  Now-a-days I do 90% of my stream/river fishing with 4 flies:
1.  Elk Hair Caddis
2.  Adams
3.  Parachute Adams
4.  Bead Head Hares Ear Nymph
5.  Bean Head Pheasant Tail Nymph
6.  Wooly Bugger

For lakes I usually use the same, except I would add a fair assortment of Chronomids.

[RightPlace-RightTime]

wooly bugger
prince
elk caddis

all good for trout, lake and river

[tlbradford]

When I was younger I used to just go through fly tying books and tie two or three of anything.  I also know that I still have a lot of those things in my vest, and they have never been used.  Now-a-days I do 90% of my stream/river fishing with 4 flies:
1.  Elk Hair Caddis
2.  Adams
3.  Parachute Adams
4.  Bead Head Hares Ear Nymph
5.  Bean Head Pheasant Tail Nymph
6.  Wooly Bugger

For lakes I usually use the same, except I would add a fair assortment of Chronomids.

   Except my pattern list is a little different.  If you are a big trout fisherman a little travel tying kit works like magic when you are trying to match a hatch. 

[Pathfinder101]

When I was younger I used to just go through fly tying books and tie two or three of anything.  I also know that I still have a lot of those things in my vest, and they have never been used.  Now-a-days I do 90% of my stream/river fishing with 4 flies:
1.  Elk Hair Caddis
2.  Adams
3.  Parachute Adams
4.  Bead Head Hares Ear Nymph
5.  Bean Head Pheasant Tail Nymph
6.  Wooly Bugger

For lakes I usually use the same, except I would add a fair assortment of Chronomids.

Wow.  I just went back and read what I wrote last night (with a severe head cold and a good dose of nyquil).  I said 4 flies, but then listed six.  Nyquil's mean %E##$.  I should stick to whiskey.

[Intruder]

Some good info already posted.  Suggest adding some Wulff's to you aresenal too and maybe some foam bodied flies.  You need these when fishing faster water.  Get a handful of the basics that folks have suggested and really concentrate on presentation cuz that's about 80% of it.

[ribka]

My go to flies are soft hackles, egg patterns and small leech patterns. Great for rivers and lakes

[Da stump]

  Hi, You might consider getting another spool or two for your reel and adding some weighted line. When fishing places like chopaka in the summer it helps. Definatly need to add a few stone flies to the assortment. They can really be great on some of the rivers. Another great fly fishing aspect is Salt water.  I love catching black bass out of Neah Bay on a fly rod.

[daveenlola]

I love fishing neah bay, be nice to bring in a big ling on a 5wt