Need Help Identifying This Fly

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Putting my fly boxes in order for my upcoming trip to the Bitterroot with the Prof. I don't have any idea what these flies are except to say that they are obviously a Dry and an Emerger or Parachute of some type of pattern. If you can't tell the coloring is a light gray. I seem to recall that I may have bought them at the suggestion of one of the clerks at the West Branch Anglers Fly Shop the last time I fished the Upper Delaware 2 years ago. Any help would be appreciated.
 

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Beats me.
They're nicely tied dry flies - why worry about the name? Many flies (in fact most of the ones I tie) are just general variations of patterns and don't match well known patterns with names.

As far as imitation goes, depending on the size, they could be BWOs or maybe a slate drake(?). Whatever the case, I'd take 'em out West as they look good.
 
My wild guess is that it is a Catskill Adams and Parachute Adams. Good all around attractor patterns.
 
I would say slate drake, but I don't know the size and I can't see it too clearly.
 
They are 10s if that helps
 
I told him the one is an Isonychia (Slate Drake) purchased at the West Branch Angler.
 
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