Dry Flys

[Murdoc]

I was down behind the dam last weekend and had a 20"brown come to the top and catch my skud before in hit the water. That was a first for me. I thought "try a dry fly" and I did. It wasn't realy a dry fly but I kept flipping it to keep it on top and Had a blast!! I was wondering what everyones favorite dry fly was??

[jjtroutbum]

I really think its hard to beat the "skaters" ie. crackleback, grithifs nat, and the renagade not only do they have a great ability to float better than most traditional patterns. They are also very versital in that they they can appear as imergers in the surface film buy being stripped just under it, or buy adding a bead to the pattern or some sort of weighted line can be stripped back as a nymph.

JJ

[topjaw]

I've never used alot of dries at Taney,however here at home(I live in between the Maremec and the Current)my go to dry fly has got to be the elk hair caddis. Carl.

[Greg]

I've tried dry flies off and on at Taney for several years but have never caught more than a few that way. Yesterday (Sat 12/23) I was there in the late afternoon and there was some type of hatch coming off. It was a very small cream colored insect. Maybe a midge? There were lots of fish taking them. I tried several different patterns but couldn't get a take on top.

Greg

[Flysmallie]

Greg, that's the same type of hatch that I ran into a while back. I did well on a griffins gnat. It didn't match the flies that buzzing around but it was the only fly I had any luck on.

[CaptainT16]

My favorites would have to be a Griffiths Gnat, Crackleback or Adams. I usually like to use a size 18-20, seems like those are the best sizes I have used. I have had a chance to catch around a 22 inch rainbow on a Adams once, and you want to talk about awesome. I saw two big ones buy themselves with their fins actually sticking out of the water. I casted in front once, and he went after it, but missed. Second time, he wasn't so lucky, very fun to see a big guy go after a topwater. Usually thought I have to have the adams or the gnat just under the surface. Seems like very rarely do I get anything on top, but If I can just get it under the film, stripping them, I can usually do pretty well with.