... to a yellow version today - bright yellow antron extended body, bright yellow foam forward body, with red barred yellow leggy stuff, one tied with the elk rump hair and one tied with deer hair for the wing.

Second cast this afternoon brought up a really big cutt, which proceeded to take the fly and then quickly break off and take half of my supply of yellow flies for a ride.

The second fly, the one with a deer hair wing, got lots of action the next couple hours in several different spots. It accounted for close to two dozen fishies before it was broken off when the tippet got wrapped around a small log that protruded out over the bank.

So much for the importance of color - at least for the cutts in the river I've been fishing.

After losing the second yellow fly, I went with a regular salmonfly colored version for an hour or so and it also did quite well.

John