We've got a bonus solo episode today, and I'm going to show you one fly, which is a must for everyone's flybox.

Hey, how's it going? I'm Dave, host of the Wet Fly Swing podcast, where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love.

This is the first in a series of beginner 101 solo episodes that I'm going to be putting together

over the next year. And we're going to be kicking this off just as a refresher for some. And

for others, it'll be a great starting point in their fly fishing journey. And in today's beginner one-on-one episode, I'm going to share the top nine dry flies

that will work just about anywhere and one other special pattern that is older but works

like a charm and this is some good stuff today.

But before we get into the top nine dry flies that work everywhere, I'm going to share a story that I've talked a little bit about over this last year.

And I think it really puts a highlights what we're talking about here with some of the flies today.

So basically we were out dryfly fishing.

We were out on mossy creek and fishing some of the areas around with the mossy creek fly shop out of Virginia. And we just had a great, great week

out there. We fished for a number of different species. But this one area that we kept going back to

had these giant rainbows. And it was a spring creek and they were just

I mean you could walk the bank and see these big fish you know and they were feeding and and kind of

hanging and but there is you know number of these fish out here that just wouldn't take anything and

we were kind of working them and nothing was really working and And so I was, you know, it was kind of just getting frustrated. And I kind of, you know, step back a little bit and pulled out my drift hook fly box. And I looked through it and, you know, and stuff that I had on wasn't working. I looked in that box and I saw a fly that I just kind of reminded me of back in the

old day. I hadn't used it in a while. Pulled that thing out and it was a royal wolf. And if you don't know

the royal wolf, take a look at it. It is a kind of a, you know, kind of a tractor pattern. It's got some good

colors on it, peacock red. And I just said, you know what, I'm going to give this a shot. So I went above that fish, probably about 30 feet or so. And I had my dry fly. And the creek here was probably about, I don't know, maybe 40 feet wide, something like that. And there were some trees on the other side that fish were kind of hanging but

this fish had moved out to the middle he was kind of in the middle and he was kind of feeding and

this is after i had made a bunch of cast to him but went above and took that royal wolf put it on there

cast it about 20 feet above it and just dropped a nice cast and just let that fly float down and right to the fish.

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