03-20-2006, 08:20 PM
[red][size 3]OK, call me lazy. I was catching up on old posts and found the top three flies not to be caught without in your fly box discussion back in November and no one even came close to mine. 1. Dry Moose Hair Mosquito 2. Wet Moose Hair Mosquito. 3. Any other Moose Hair Mosquito. (Once in a while if I'm feeling ambitious I'll try a wooly bugger.) [/size][/red]
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[red][size 3]I used to really get into all of that match the hatch stuff and went to the extremes of taking an entomology course, setting surface and bottom nets to see what was getting pulled down the river, turning over rocks, rustling bushes, suctioning stomachs, packing my field fly tying kit over hundreds of miles of Montana wilderness just in case we needed to make a new pattern streamside, checking lunar, solar and planetary line up tables and what not. We did OK - but bottom line - rarely nothing I couldn't reproduce with a good old fashioned home tied moose hair mosquito pattern. My partner in crime settled into the same opinion only with a small Adams variation. (He said it was to much of a bother anymore so he just created an Adams hatch wherever he went.) [/size][/red]
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[#ff0000][size 3]Whats the greatest fly of all time? I nominate the Moose Hair Mosquito. [/size][/#ff0000]
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[red][size 3]I used to really get into all of that match the hatch stuff and went to the extremes of taking an entomology course, setting surface and bottom nets to see what was getting pulled down the river, turning over rocks, rustling bushes, suctioning stomachs, packing my field fly tying kit over hundreds of miles of Montana wilderness just in case we needed to make a new pattern streamside, checking lunar, solar and planetary line up tables and what not. We did OK - but bottom line - rarely nothing I couldn't reproduce with a good old fashioned home tied moose hair mosquito pattern. My partner in crime settled into the same opinion only with a small Adams variation. (He said it was to much of a bother anymore so he just created an Adams hatch wherever he went.) [/size][/red]
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[#ff0000][size 3]Whats the greatest fly of all time? I nominate the Moose Hair Mosquito. [/size][/#ff0000]
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