Hi all as many of you no this is my first year fly fishing. do you guys just try to aquire as many flies as you can of all varieties ie wets, dries, buzzers etc or do you have a small selection of your favoured flies in dif colours and sizes? if so what are some must have flies i mostly fish small stillwater but do now and again fish the rivers near by thanks for any advice bob

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Eventually over time you tend to accumulate quite a few!

In fact I have boxes and boxes.

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Some people are probably different, i used to have thousands when i fished the still waters but cut this amount down to my small amount of favourites ie fish catchers, the same on the river you get to know the ones that are fish catchers or should i say normally are and i stick by these

Its probably a personal thing ,some boys like loads and others only carry a small box you will get to know what will give you a good chance of a fish in the right conditions, put it this way ive been at it for 40 year and still try some new ideas as they say you never stop learning , things are changing all the time,where in scotland are you

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am in blairgowrie perthshire,

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first divison champs!!!!!

St johnstone Fc

I used to fish the ericht and the isla at couper grange for the salmon

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Just nip into Kate Flemings , they will keep you right.

I think everyone goes through the collect as many as posibly stage, but in time you,ll cut them back to 1 or 2 boxes of you,re favourite ones. or you,ll be carying lots of boxes around with you here is a previous thread

good choice particularly the spider patterns.

burhan

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I've got thousands but if I was honest with myself, if I was limited to half a dozen patterns each for salmon, sewin, stillwater trout, river trout and grayling I would catch at least 90% of the fish that I catch with all those thousands.

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I only started this year(in the summer),i have a few flies but only really use 6 different kinds at the moment and have only blanked once,
black and green montana
brown nymph pattern
red and black buzzer
damsil
dal bak

and a dry fly,not sure what its called.