Quote Originally Posted by Midwest Custom Fly Rods View Post
Stimulator size 16. Because it doesn't need a hatch to be seen by fish on any river that has a population of stone flies. So you can use it mid day, evening, hatch, no hatch, spring, summer.


Steve
This. This fly exactly, in this size, for those reasons.

I was thinking this before I even got to Steve's response.

Probably in yellow/orange coloration, but any combination of yellow, orange, green, olive, black, red, peacock, grey, or red will do.

It works in no hatch, as stones, caddis, hoppers, fluttering mayflies of any type in any size within one of the chosen fly, and I've even used it as an impromptu wet fly, to swing past a fish.

It's also highly visible to the angler, in any condition, and will float without a big ugly footprint on slow pools, but won't get drowned by any water you can wade through.