I would have to choose a woolly worm. You can grease a smaller one and fish it dry (crackleback), or weight it and fish it deep for big gills and trout, or fish it unweighted in shallow water. Colors, black, brown, white and yellow with red tags.

Briminator. Oh yeah-Why? Cause it catches fish and lots of them.

Hands down the woolly worm is my go to fly weighted or not. I believe they will catch just about anything that swims.Thats why I have them in many colors from size 14 up .They just work
Dennis

Do you have pictures of that fly? I don't think I have ever seen one.

Thanks J, that helps me out a lot. I might want to tie some of them up and see how they work out!

Very nice, would chenille substitute for the dubbing?

David, I sub dubbing for chenille these days. I just don't care for chenille as a tying material. Your right about the dubbing being more buggy, and you have way more control over body shape. I'll never buy chenille again.

J.

Andy, dubbing is actually very easy to tie with. especially with a dubbing loop. I feel I have more control over the way my bodys form than with spinning the dubbing onto the thread. Also, when I do a dubbing loop, having a dubbing spinner helps alot. I also learned to tie in dubbing with a loop from Kevin Compton, so that also has a hand in why I do it that way.

I've been thinking about this question today and my answer is going to be a black bugger with white rubber legs because it is a great pattern that can easily be converted to several other things as you fish it. The bugger works on trout, bass and pretty much all sunfish and when the tail gets worn down, you have a woolly worm. Trim the hackle and tail and you have a girdle bug. Its a very versatile pattern.

One of my newer favorites that I started using a lot over the past couple of years is the Stealth Bomber. I tie them in several sizes for bass, panfish and trout. They are very easy to tie and can be fished as a topwater or stripped as a streamer pattern or even as a terrestrial beetle for summer.
Here are a few ways I tie them....

#6 - #1/0 for bass using combinations of flash and feather or rabbit strips for the tail.


#8 for bream or clip of the tail and use as a beetle pattern for trout with a #12 hook

Those are some nice stealth bombers; for some unknown biological quirk in my genes, I cannot tie those; mine come out more like "kimokaze bombers" and act kinda like them on the water!!-p-