Quote Originally Posted by gpatton View Post
Where do you find water chickens for your dry fly hackle? I got to get me some of that.

Sorry...I couldn't resist. In all honesty though, do you have dry fly patterns that call for goose biots (excluding the ones that use biots wrapped around the shank instead of dubbing)?

Greg
I could be off, but I think he's talking about flies in which buoyancy is provided due to the materials' properties rather than the water's properties (namely surface tension).

See also: CDC.

Also, its by no means a hard and fast rule.

See also: Elk Hair Caddis, Usual, Comparadun