smooth/rough body?

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Since that meeting, I have always tied my flies very buggy and with a lot of material movement which translate to a rough body and not smooth. I have noticed that most of the surface insects that the dry fly fishermen try to imitate have rather smooth bodies.

The thing is, rough is NOT buggy. Insects have exoskeletons, not fur.

That's different from saying that flies shouldn't look alive. By far the most generally effective fly that I fish for trout is the Partridge and Orange -- smooth body, lots of moving parts.