I reserve my dry fly selection for flies that are fished on the surface of the water and either represent the dun or spinner of a an insect that spends part of its life cycle in the water such as a Mayfly, Caddis fly, Midge, Dobsonfly, Cranefly etc. or they represent terrestrial insects that have fallen or have been blown onto the surface of the water. I have separate page for my hoppers and emerger type flies each of which I also carry in my ‘Dry fly box’.

Have a look at a full list of dry flies featured on this web site:  QUICK LINK

From the above list I choose to carry just these few:

Mayflies

Baetis dun

Adams Irresistible Black Irresistible Brown Irresistible

Caenis dun

Brown Grey

Lepto olive dun

Kosciuszko dun

Iron blue dun

Twilight beauty

Quill Gordon

Spinner

Black Red Orange Blue

Beetles

Red tag

Also a lime tag

Coch-y-bonddu

Foam beetle

Black Fiery Brown Geehi Gum

Others

Elk hair caddis (some with trailing shuck)

Cream Lime Black Dark brown

Hair wing coachman

Hair wing humpy

Natural/yellow Natural/green Natural/red Black/red

Ant

Black Red

Foam flying termite / ant

Black Brown