I mainly fish trout and for dry flies, its atie between the popular elk hair caddis or the klinkhammer. They klinky has been popular lately with me. For nymphs, the pheasant tail or prince nymph.
Dr Bob
Definentely the Clouser!
Griffith’s Gnat in sizes 20 to 26.
Hare Wing Royal Trude, size #14.
My go-to fly this year has become the Hare’s Ear, but tied in different color variations – except that I now tie it with hackle fiber tails – otherwise, I make them too bushy.
I used to buy a dyed hare’s mask, but now I use Hare’s ear plus mostly.
The wing cases are always dark, because the wing cases on a nymph that’s getting ready to hatch are dark.
For the early season little black stones, a black hare’s ear in size 18 works.
For Hendrickson time, a 12 or 14 chocolate brown hare’s ear.
For the sulphurs, a yellowish orange hare’s ear in size 14/16. Red Fox squirrel works pretty good for this.
Natural hare’s ear is a good choice. I think it’s because when stoneflies molt, they are cream colored before their exoskeletons harden up. If there are stoneflies with multi-year life cycles around, they are always in the water. And I personally think that the importance of stoneflies on eastern streams is underestimated.
In smaller sizes, the Al Troth pheasant tail in smaller sizes is a close second. I like the flashback variation.
#2 Chart/White Clouser Minnow for me