The Field Journal

Flies

Stimulator

Stimulator Dry Fly

Key points

Imitates: adult Stoneflies (Golden Stone, Yellow Sally) and large caddis .
Why it works: floats well in broken water, big silhouette, draws opportunistic cutthroat.
Fish it: drag-free drift, quartering up/across; mend to keep it natural; good hopper-dropper anchor.

Imitates

Stoneflies (adult) primarily; doubles for big Caddisflies (Sedges).

Related

Small-Stream Dry-Fly for Cutthroat — the technique.
Royal Wulff — the other core attractor dry.

Where next

Keep moving

What it imitates Caddisflies (Sedges) The big mid-summer dry-fly event. Caddis (and the larger "travelling sedge") prevail from late June through August — skating/twitching a sedge on a summer eveni How to fish it Dry-Fly Fishing (Fundamentals) The core river dry-fly method that the Creston cutthroat game is built on. Get a clean drag-free drift over a feeding fish, match the bug roughly, and set the h

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