Again, I tie flies that are easy and that work. In the last week or so, I've tied up a bunch of varieties of pheasant tails and green machines with different colors and caddis pupas and then fished them on both the Gallatin and the Madison and bar none, this guy has been the best; even during a pretty good caddis hatch on the Madi. All it is, is a gold bead head; pheasant tail, tail and white body, wrapped with copper and then a green ice dub collar. I've been fishing it deep behind a Czech but the best luck I've had with it is two of these, one a #16 and the second a #18, under a small indicator and very short.
Now obviously I'd be fishing dries when the conditions are right and it has been really good down around Bozeman when there are clouds. I also know the Missouri is going off right now but as guide, we all know where our bread is buttered and that's simplifying things a little and having clients nymph fish to put a few in the boat before crushing their will with dries.
If you want to test yourself however, all you really need to know right now is the Parachute Adams. If you get the right presentation and have the right size, they will eat what is considered the most generic but probably the most important fly in the West because it works. It just does and with BWO's, March browns, and some caddis, there's a smorgasbord of food for fish and it's just not all that technical. And if they don't eat it, it's not the fly; it's the drift.
Keep 'em where they live...
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