Top 3 Mayfly Dry Patterns

[Byron haugh]

Hi,

From time to time, there have been articles written for fly fishing magazines about the "Top 10" flies amongst the "experts". These are guys like Lefty, Borger, Dennis, etc.

I would like to know what guys here consider their top 3 Mayfly Dry patterns. I'm looking for "styles" of flies - not a specific pattern. So, for example, one might say "Catskill", or "Comparadun", or "Parachute", or "Sparkle Dun", or "Thorax Style", or "loop Wing", etc., etc.
Please list in the order of your preference: 1., 2., 3

Thank you. If there are enough responses, I will tabulate them and summarize after a day or two.


Thanks again,

Byron

[Allan]

No expert at this end of computer.

"Top" 3 (meaning the mayfly style I'm most likely to put on) would be:
Catskill
Comparadun
Parachute

I'm not quite sure where you would catagorize a 'mayfly spinner', but I'm considering it part of Catskill.

Allan

[Silver Creek]

For me the first "dry" pattern I will put on is the parachute. Second is the Sparkledun. 3. is a CDC winged dun.

[Longs for Cutts]

1. Quigley/DOA-style cripple
2. Sparkle Dun
3. Parachute

Probably in that order.

[Byron haugh]

1. Sparkle Dun
2. Quigley Cripple
3. Thorax Dun

[billyspey]

CDC comparadun , parachute , last standard dry with hackle clipped short on bottom.

[Byron haugh]

CDC comparadun , parachute , last standard dry with hackle clipped short on bottom.

Does "last standard dry with hackle clipped short on bottom" mean catskill???

[NJTroutbum]

Mine would fall in this order:

1- LTD
2- Haystack
3- Catskill

[Silver Creek]

Byron, since you picked a cripple, I protest. I consider a cripple to be an emerger, and not a dry. I guess I shouldn't protest too much since a the sparkle dun I picked is also technically a late stage emerger.

[AlanB]

Don't often get to fish this kind of hatch these days. When I did if one of these wouldn't do the job I usually found they were not taking the duns.
CdC and Elk Upright. (Body of CdC and elk with the wing tied as a compara dun wing and tails added)
Marc Petitjean Duns
Thorax Dun.
Cheers,
A.