New to warm water fly fishing

[cgturner7]

I've been a cold water fly fisher for ages but have settled down in the Hill Country of TX.  Not too many trout around here.  I will be needing to fill a couple of new fly boxes.  What are your recommendations on, say, your top 10 warm water flies?

[flatlander]

Wooly buggers and poppers are good all-around flies. Also minnow imitation streamers can be good. And of course, being in Texas, you'll want a mix of some bass bugs just for fun.

[sharps4590]

The boogers and poppers mentioned are nearly a "must" for warm water as are the various minnow imitating streamers, as was also mentioned.  One of the streamers I've had fair success with is a Black Ghost but tied more in the original fashion, ie, with the wings along the side and using a badger or furnace feather for the wing.  I do use black chenille for the body.  I tie it on an 8-12, 2X-4X streamer hook.

You might also want to keep some tan EHC and dark brown EHC in your fly box if you're going after panfish.  I believe you'll be surprised at how many panfish you can catch on some trout drys.  Anyway, welcome to warm water fly fishing, it can be a blast!

Vic

[cgturner7]

Streamers like Clousers?  Muddlers?  I've got a few left over tarpon flies.  Will they work?  Is it like trout fishing where most of the action is subsurface?

[Questor]

Strikes at the surface are the most interesting. Assuming you've got sunfish, get some commercially made popping bugs of light plastic, cork, or foam. Most places that sell any fly fishing stuff at all stock these durable flies that don't require constant drying.  If you've got bass, get deer hair popping bugs and use a bug taper line to cast them. It's much more enjoyable to cast big bugs with a 9 weight bug tapered line than with any lighter line.  

For subsurface fishing, use small black or white weed-guard wooly buggers and big nymphs. Classic wet fly patterns are good too on sunfish.

I like a 9 weight for big pike and bass bugs, a 7 weight for everything else.

[Rustyinfla]

My go to is always a rubber spyder. they are so good they're almost booooring. One of the colors will always catch fish. Sometimes it depends on sun, cloud cover, and water color as to which color works best.

  Try www.fylanglersonline.com for some good ideas.

                 Rusty <><

[SQUACKS]

2 STREAMERS i can remember catching bass on were a yellow sally and a mcnalley's magnum both of which are wet flies.

 for top water bass i like the annes and the deerhair mouse.

 for gill i use a black hackled starling which is sub surface.

 for crappie i like the small streamers in the assasin or black nosed dace.

                                            luck!