Tom Nakashima wrote:


Larry, it's hard to say exactly what the exact pattern is without catching
one and doing a full examination of matching the hatch .One of the things I
learned from fishing and researching the dry fly pattern is "sometimes" it's
not important to match the hatch exact, only when they are in abundance and
the only thing fish are on the rise for, even more-so in still water. It is
also good to present something different to them other than the exact hatch.
At least from your description the fish were on the rise.
I keep in my mind:
1. Size
2. Pattern
3. Color
What I do first is try to match the hatch. If I can't do that, I go for
size.
The three basic dry flies I use a
1. Imitators
2. Searching Flies
3. Attractors
and I fish the dry flies in that order.
fwiw,
-tom



I see two challenges in tying an imitation of this fly - one is the
size. It was 1/2 the size of a trico - no kidding! The other is its
light color and its translucent body.

I've been thinking of trying to tie something off the hook - on a piece
of mono-filament attached in some manner to the hook.... But am still
playing with ideas in my head.

On the other hand, the fish were showing a measure of interest in my
very small PTs (#22, #24) so maybe the translucency is not really an issue.

Larry