I never try to match anything in particular when I tie and when I fly fish. I just like to create different flies and go test them. On this one I decided that I wanted to try and tie one fly that had properties of other "go to" flies that produced good results. The Crackleback has been a good fly for me and the color orange has been a good color for me, so, I decided to create a larger fly with these 2 properties and this is what I came up with:



Then I decided to take it fishing and see what the fish thought of it and was surprised! I fished today from 2pm to 5:30pm and ended up with 33 trout with one being a nice brown! Yes, I have a counter and I count my fish. Just my way.... I also had about 8 LDR's... Here are a few pictures of today's great fun: