>>1502501Well, panfish are easy enough. I usually like a foam hopper, beetle, or Chernobyl ant with a trailer of a wet fly. Soft hackles, tiny streamers, san juan worm, it doesn't matter so much what it is so much as that it is. Panfish Poppers and small streamers are useful, too.
Trout are often simple enough. Hares ear nymphs and pheasant tail nymphs in the right colours and sizes are just fine for stonefly and mayfly nymphs. Streamers fished on the swing, strip, or dead drift are nice. It's hard to go wrong with something made of either marabou or squirrel, or rabbit. Leeches, sculpins, shiners, suckers, trout eat them all.
As for dry flies, if i could only have one dry fly pattern for the rest of my life, i would have various sizes of the adams. Some elk hair caddis flies, and stimulators will cover you for aquatic insects. Terrestrials are also god for trout; ants, hoppers, beetles.
What fly rod did you get?
