Favorite Dry Fly Attractor Pattern?
What is your favorite dry fly attractor pattern? When there isn't a visible hatch, but it's a dry-fly kinda day, what fly do you reach for first?
Mine is either an elk-hair winged egg-laying caddis, or a deer-hair winged X-caddis (Craig Matthews), both with no hackle so they ride low in the film. No matter where I go during late spring, summer and early fall I reach for one of these patterns first when nothing else seems to work or make sense.
What works best for you?
Kelly.
Tight Lines,
Kelly.
"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home."
Roderick Haig-Brown, "Fisherman's Spring"