Top 5 Stillwater Fly Patterns I Stillwater Fly Fishing 

If you learn to fish nymphs in Maine ponds you success will triple

Scuds and daphnia are a staple source of food besides chironomids when it's cold and the other hatches are over. They must have overlooked them in that suitcase of flies. 😀

As I gather, we Yanks “imported” the blob and booby fly patterns from the UK. Thank you, Gordon Fraser for the booby. Fly Fish Food was among the first shops in the US to offer true materials for these patterns including imported fritz. For what it’s worth I concur with your additional suggestions. I’ve had particular success with elk hair caddis in the High Uinta Mountains of Utah (FFF’s backyard). Cheers.

The first appearance of the booby utilised expanded polystyrene balls wrapped in a couple of layers of material from pantyhose. Unfortunately they rarely survived more than a couple encounters from trout’s teeth before becoming exboobied. The turning point was the introduction of high density foam This material was later used to evolve the blob to a FAB Foam AR@@D blob. A useful modification is to make a vertical cut to the foam. The resultant increase in surface area improves the buoyancy factor while improving the water disturbance action of the fly. If you make your own flies you can either cut during the process. Or use a slightly smaller diameter cylinder of foam and fold it before adding it to the dressing. One final twist that is worth adding into the mix on some dressings. Add a some folded fluorescent floss, yarn, or wool as a tail between the split. That hot spot now makes it a fire spiting FAB. This also works on the basic blob. Either it draws the fish to spot the fly from a greater distance. Then the fly triggers an attack reaction or the fish when drawn in takes a more natural fly or nymph part of the team of of flies that it would not have even seen without the FAB. Hope my input helped.

You beat me to it

I think it is the C & F Designs guide box

New box system coming from C&F in the fall. It is a GAME CHANGER

@@FlyFishFood is it the one I’ve seen on Amazon for like $280?

Super super gross.