like someone above said, never had any luck with adult patterns fished on the surface. nymphs do really well. For the truly lazy, olive buggers work very well at imitating nymphs. i spent a day on one of the ponds i fish with a cast net and a pool net dredging the mud, and dragonfly nymphs were by far the most abundant insect at that time. damsels were pretty common too. I also pulled some crazy stick-bug looking things out that had giant mandibles on the mouth-end. havent tried to imitate that one yet, though, .