Dry flies

 

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