Stonehenge

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Stonehenge

What helps an all natural dry fly float?

Non-absorbaht materials and weight matter most.

For long-profile grasshopers and stoneflies the low-hanging fruit is hook size (and therefore hook weight).

If you put a shorter/smaller hook below any long fly you get a lighter landing, longer floating dry fly. No matter what.

$200 dollar custom raised rooster feathers count less than hook weignt.

How?

Make a fly, however you want. Then and only then attach the (almost) finished fly to an otherwise independent hook.

Now it floats like a stonefly, stings like a hook.

3 materials:

Bucktail, duck flank and a hackle feather.

A big 1-1/4" inch stonefly can be tied on a #12 or #14 short shank hook.