Stillwater selection

[marcusp]

My wife has asked for me to introduce her to our great sport next year and having spent a small fortune on kiting her out with rod, reel lines etc Im going to tie her up a couple of boxes of flies to start her with over the winter.

She will be fishing a couple of local club small stillwaters and having a few trips to Draycote from a boat with me.

Just wondering what flies you would include in a good starter selection for the above waters.
Any tying instructions and pics would be appreciated. As you can imagine I.ve bgot a busy winter coming up. She has all ready started with casting lessons

[megaflies]

for a starter box i would have to say

cats whisker wtd
dawsons olive wtd
nomads
vivas wtd
black buzzers of all sizes
klinkhammers
zonkers

always in my box, and always produce on stillwaters.

[marcusp]

Cheers mate

Ive got my work cut out over the winter by the looks ofr it to stock my boxes and hers

[lvlacleod]

Teach her to tie her own meaning you can get out to fish

[leitrim lad]

wrong post

[boony]

I would tie up,
Diawl bachs 12-14
buzzers in a range of colours 10-14
pheasant tails, crunchers, grhe 10-14
some shuttlecocks, f flies, hoppers, paraduns etc
and a few lure patterns that should keep you busy

John

[draycote flyer]

For draycote it would be buzzers,buzzers and some buzzers
If your fishing somewhere like packington over the winter my main flys.
apps type bloodworm various colours
grhe
small cats whiskers
black or black/green tadpoles
orange tadpole
crunchers/ptn
diawl bachs
damsel
small black hoppers
shuttlecock cdc
one of the above will defo catch if presented correctly.
If i couldn't catch on any or a combo of the above i may aswell chuck myself in.
Hope this helps.

Cheers Craig

[flytyingguy]

Crunchers, cruncher boobies, snatchers, diawl bach, mini cats/doubles, mini vivas/doubles, mini boobies, boobies, yellow dancers, fabs, blobs, a few traditional "get out of jail" wets like invitcas, soldier palmers, zulus, kates etc.

[marcusp]

Guys all advice very much appreciated.
If anyone wants a wife PM me as I have one going cheap.
Only condition is you have to be able to tie flies