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I was introduced to the Doobry a few years ago as a good middle dropper fly for loch style fishing in midge feeder waters. At about the same time I started using lime snatcher flies and red snatcher flies in similar applications. As time has passed I have settled on recipe for all three flies.  Although  I have never seen a natural of these colours these fly remain useful dropper flies. I lean toward to two red versions when midge are around and the green version works well in waters when midge are around but stick caddis and sand caddis are also on the menu.

Materials

Process

A	Wind the thread in touching turns to the bend of the hook. Understanding hooks Tie in a tag of red or lime marabou about 1/4 to 1/3 as long as the shank of the hook. Tag tails Tie in a length of silver wire for the gold body or copper wire for the red or green body.

B	Tie in a length of flat gold, red or green tinsel at the bend of the hook. Wind the tinsel forward in overlapping turns. Tie if off behind the eye of the hook and trim the excess tinsel. Tie in a hackle at about the 95% mark.

C	Wind the hackle back along the hook shank forming 4 or 5 segments. Whilst holding the hackle in place with one hand pick up the copper wire and wind it forward through the hackle forming 4 or 5 segments along the body of the fly. Break the excess copper wire off behind the eye of the hook and and trim the excess hackle off at the bend of the hook with a blade. Segments on flies

D	Tie in the front hackle just behind the eye of the hook. I like orange with the gold body and brown with the red or the green bodies. Wet fly hackles Take just 2 turns of the hackle between the black palmered hackle and the eye of the hook then tie the hackle off and trim the excess. Build up a neat head of thread. Whip finish the thread, trim the thread and varnish the head.

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