Fishing Q&A

Best fly-fishing "fly" for Western PA?

I read all kinds of stuff about eastern pennsylvania, where fly fising is big. I'm just north of Pittsburgh, what fly works best? (maybe you have a top three)

Public Comments

1. woolybugger
2. i am just south of pittsburgh and my favorite flies are the muddler minnow, a wooly bugger, a clouser minnow, and a sculpin imitation. you can get these at gander mountain or cabelas. cabelas has a bigger selection.
3. It depends on the conditions, but good flies that work almost all over the USA and even most of the world are the olive and gold head woolly bugger and also the pheasant tail nymph, hares ear nymph, the Adams dry fly, the San Juan worm and also a variety of parachute flies tied with ethofoam work well, sizes 10 are most common but also size 18 to 20 in the Adams. http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/subcategory/subcategory.jsp?id=cat20441&navCount=0&parentId=cat20431&navAction=jump