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You'd be surprised at how well a Pale Evening Dun/Little Marryat works during a sulfur hatch/spinner fall. Put floatant on it, add a soft hackle 18 inches below, cast upstream. It lies flat on the...

The stream that I fish the most (like at least once a week, 12 months a year) is the Gunpowder Falls in Maryland. It's a medium-sized tailwater with 4000 wild brown trout per mile. Lots of long...

More often upsteam or up and across, with a very short line; I grease my top dropper and leader. Of course if the fish want it the other way, I'm willing to oblige.

The slate drake (Isonychia bicolor), aka iso, aka leadwing.

Agreed about Cotton, but then again, I seldom fish winged wets more than an inch or so deep, and often floating or skimming the surface....

They could be functional somehow, but I don't think it's to keep the fly from rolling. A wingless wet is "in the round" and it really doesn't matter much if it were to roll. I also think that 1x gut...

I was under that impression for a long time, but the more I pore over quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore, the less convinced I am. Ronalds included a number of caddis flies in a Fly...

Yes, but it was on the page about Emphemerellidae, not epeorus (which are Heptigeniidae), two very different sets of insects. The quote I included was from the epeorus page (which was what the...

You mean the part where he says "All Epeorus duns emerge from their nymphal shucks below the surface, often while still attached to the stream bed. Most species (with the exception of Epeorus...