Tie The Best Dry Fly

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments

I was going to write a post on tying the Slate Drake Comparadun but came across an excellent tutorial on the flyfishersparadise website and also on the globalflyfisher website. When I first started fly tying, all of my dry flies were traditional hackle wing flies. Now, most of my dry flies with the exception of spinners and larger (10+ hook size) are based on the Comparadun style by Al Caucci and Bob Nastassi. These type of flies work best on hook sizes of 12-18. I usually tie them with a piece of Antron for the tail to represent the trailing shuck. The flies float like a cork, are easy to see and hold up well after repeated trout catches. They have consistently outproduced traditional fly patterns for me. If the trout are rising, this is the first style of fly I’ll try.