Byron,
As I mentioned a month or so ago, Hans Von Klinken's Para Poly Sedge (http://www.flytierspage.com/hklinken/parapoly_sedge.htm) was far and away the most productive dry fly pattern I have used this summer and fall. Putting a trailing shuck on the pattern neither increased nor decreased the strikes, so I have eliminated it now. It has a parachute hackle like the patterns you prefer. There may be something to Cutter's theory.

Joe