"Bill Dance is a fake, I've only seen him fish on public waters twice, every fish he catches is 5 pounds, that's certainly not what real fishing is like. At least not for me."
Not to hi-jack the thread, but Bill Dance has done tons of episodes on crappie, catfish, saltwater fishing etc so I would not really call him fake. I personally saw him on public waters more than twice (and have saw him catch very nice smallies as one of the early adapters of the float n' fly system). Yes a lot of his LMB video is done on smaller waters, but even a lot of those are open water. There is just a ton of this type of water in the area he live in. Plus try going out on high traffic waters like Santee, Wylie, Kerr and try filming with all the yahoos out there!
Now, back on topic . . . a big visible fly, with an accurately sized profile dropper is a home run. As others have said size, profile and presentation are much more important than matching color, etc.