Appreciate the help in advance. Newer to the hobby but absolutely addicted. I haven’t quite mastered being able to tell what is a dry fly vs what is a wet/nymph. I know that bead heads usually signal a wet fly, and dry flies tend to have more hair, or foam, and without the bead. But is this a hard and fast rule? Below is the collection I’ve been pulling from, still unsure about a few of them and what they are. Thank you!
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Sorry, I don’t think anybody’s gonna take the time to ID each one of those. You’ve got a mix of wooly buggers, poppers, dry flies, wet flies, and bead head nymphs. If you are new, I would recommend running a gold beadhead nymph under an indicator. Stripping a wooly bugger through a pool or run is also a pretty easy way to catch a fish.
Reading your caption though I am willing to bet that most of the flies on the left side in slide 2 are wet flies, not dries. I have never really used these types of flies for ordinary trout fishing; I’d imagine they may work for steelhead or on very low pressure small streams where trout aren’t picky