In my search for a great PMD pattern, I bought something I have to call a puffball. This ball of fluff didn't even look like a natural mayfly much. The wing was white CDC, The thorax was pale yellow CDC, and even the body seemed like it was pale yellow CDC, then it had split tailfibers.

My friend told me it would never catch a fish because it did not look like the natural enough, I did not have success with the puffball thing until I fished a breezy day and covered it with Frogs Fanny.

The breeze whipped the puffball back and forth, skimming the top of the water, and a trout hit it so quickly and hard I never even thought to set the hook. In retrospect the puffball was acting like the mayflies when they dip in the water. I then offered the fly to the willows.

Has anyone ever heard of a fly like this before, the fly shop I bought it from closed it's doors, or was it just a fluke that it was hit?