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Dry#10–12orange / yellowBest: Jun–Sep
When to use
A hard-wearing, highly buoyant American dry adopted on UK and Irish rivers as a searching pattern in broken or fast water, and as a good dry to support a dropper nymph; also works as a sedge-style searcher through summer evenings.
Imitates
General buoyant searching dry — originally a giant stonefly (salmonfly) imitation, also taken for caddis/sedge and grasshoppers.
Team position
Single dry fly, or the top fly supporting a dropper nymph on a dry-dropper river rig.
Best methods
Dry, staticDead-drift
Dressing
- Hook
- curved-shank stonefly/terrestrial dry hook, #10–12
- Thread
- fine, colour to match body
- Tail
- elk or deer hair
- Body
- golden-yellow Antron or floss dubbing, palmered with a golden badger or furnace hackle
- Rib
- fine wire counter-rib over the palmered hackle
- Hackle
- grizzly hackle through the thorax; golden badger/furnace palmered through the body
- Wing
- elk or deer hair, with a few strands of flash
- Head
- thread head
Devised by Randall Kaufmann (USA), originally as a giant stonefly imitation; body colour is commonly varied (orange, olive) for other naturals.
Pairs with
Retrieve & line
- Fished dry and static — floating line
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