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Dry#12–16greyBest: Apr–Sep
When to use
A general-purpose dry for rivers, lough margins and slicks when trout are taking small to medium upwings. Fish it singly, dead-drift on rivers, or static on calmer stillwater.
Imitates
General upwinged dun; often used as an all-round olive-style mayfly dry.
Team position
Single fly; commonly fished alone rather than as part of a wet-fly team.
Best methods
Dead-driftDry, static
Dressing
- Hook
- dry fly, #12-16
- Thread
- grey
- Tail
- grizzle or red-brown cock hackle fibres
- Body
- blue-grey rabbit underfur dubbing
- Hackle
- grizzle and natural red cock, wound together
- Wing
- two grizzle hackle points
- Head
- thread head
Modern UK/Irish commercially standard dressing. The original Halladay recipe used golden pheasant tippet tails and grey wool yarn.
Pairs with
Retrieve & line
- Fished dry and static — floating line
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