Wes, that's the way i like to flyfish, hence the size hook and the exaggerated white hackle. I found another bag of wet white hackle today that looks better and some darker brown that hopefully is wetter so the fly won't look so 'spikey' on the brown hackle end.

I've only fished the #4's so far but tied some smaller sizes with the same matls. and since this one works so well i can't imagine smaller sizes not working and tied with dry hackle on both ends too.

Drift boat casting to the bank for big trout, steel or smb would be fun. I do similar on the lake by casting ahead of me a good ways up the shoreline, like the pic below. I can see the takes easily and i'm casting about 50 ft in the pic and in fact got a bass on that cast. Wifey was the cinematographer that day.

Cheers,

MontanaMoose