Quote Originally Posted by Midge Man
The good news is that it forced me to work on parachute flies.
Midge Man, it has been the same with myself - have had the same problem with classic catskill dries and finally arrived to the parachute solution I guess all reasons posted above /separately or alltogether/ could cause inproper floating and presentation.. now the greater part of my dries are tied the parachute way, the royal coachman and the adams being amongst the best producers.. also, if you need to get smaller in size I can recommend trying a biot bodied parachute /grey and brown goose biots make out great bodies for small dries/, in fact I often use biots for the parachute post too - white, gray, or brown biots make out excellent upright wings mounted as a post and are enough durable as a hackle base/.. ooops, sory, this thread was about the classic catskill dries, but I am too biased I guess
cheers and good luck!