Tybee Island

[flytyfish]

Im going there next weekend and need some help on what kind of salt flies to use

[davida]

I don't have site specific info, but I can give you a general idea of what to tie.

Backwaters-

For reds: bright colours, gold flash- brown, red, orange, chartreuse are good
merkins in browns, chartreuse/white clousers,
gold lizzy type fly, dupree spoons

For trout- large bright flies with silver
pink, white/green are good, all-white, red and white
deceivers, clousers, seaducers

Surf-

silver/white, tan/silver, blue or green/white
small bonefish flies such as cook's critters,
etc. -heavy eyes size 2-4 for whiting,
macks, and smaller stuff

large chenille flies with large tails-
white/silver surfin' woolly, big mullet flies, big heavy deceivers
for larger fish- reds, trout, sharks, tarpon,etc.
in blue/white; green/white, all white, grey/white use silver flash

if drum and reds are around- crab patterns can be good
Surf flies need to be fished deep so added plenty of weight

small surf candy flies for macks

Occasionally, yellow flies can be very productive in both venues, so it's a good idea to have some tied with yellow.

In saltwater, it's not a bad idea to carry some shrimpy and crab patterns for specific situations, but mostly use deceivers and seaducers for shallow and clousers for deeper presentations.

Hope this helps, DA