Go with a synthetic dubbing with some sparkle or flash. Ice dub makes an effective fly but is a pain to use on smaller flies. Sometimes the fibers are just way too coarse. I still haven't found a dubbing I'm entirely happy with for PH's.
Think I’m going to try the nature’s spirit fine natural dubbing in ‘purple haze’ and the fulling mill tactical microflash uv dub in dark purple and mix them together….was looking for a darker shade of purple… I came across some ‘black raspberry’ colored dubbing but can’t seem to find it again
And I’ll tie a few experimentals (that should be an official category of flies- dries, nymphs, terrestrials, experimentals) w/ quill bodies w/ the Uni-flex
I like the looks of the electric grape
I would say on average, absolutely not. But I’ve had days where natural earth-tone colors were producing few fish, and chartreuse or hot pink, for example, were catching them hand over fist.
Good question. I dunno.
On both the Madison and the Yellowstone I tried many dry flies and scoffed at the Purple Haze pattern. I finally relented and bought a few at a fly shop......and began catching trout on them!! I will say back-east they have never been anything special, for me anyway, but out-west they seem to work as advertised, at times anyway. As always YMMV.
How many wraps of hackle is that? My parachutes always look sparser and I'm wrapping 6-7 times.
Never seen that before. Is there a video demonstrating that method?
