Crème brûlée

[Mataura mayfly]

Both nice flies, nobody take offence.... but if offered a choice to fish with here, I would reach for Bill's version first. Only because I feel it would match out Mayflies more closely.
Now, if I were fishing the bottom with nymphs, Rays would win.... but I would be doing some surgery to that fine looking hackle and calling it a Caddis nymph.

[letumgo]

Jeff - I appreciate your honest comments/feedback. Good stuff!

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Ray. Nice creamy egg custard topped with flamed sugar. Beautiful fly, named after my favorite dessert.

[Mataura mayfly]

Jeff - I appreciate your honest comments/feedback. Good stuff!

Nothing derogatory, it is just what would suit MY comments on what would suit MY local water. We might share the same kinds of trouts........ but the insects can vary some.

[DUBBN]

With out a tail The Creme Brule, does remind me of a caddis when I look at it. That being said, in my experience, these types of patterns will do double duty for Mayfly, and Caddis. Tail or not, both patterns would be fished close to the river bottom.

[DOUGSDEN]

Ray,
Fantastic! You sure have the great ability to effectively transfer what you see to the hook shank for great looking patterns!
I have been watching some very small cream colored mayflies hatching from the water in the evenings at both ponds and going skyward with grace and delicacy! Your pattern above is just awesome!
Doug

[William Anderson]

Ray, this is a lovely tie and a very effective pattern. It's very close to a pattern Eric has been fishing all season and doing very well. If Bill's clutch fly is a sulphur comparadun, Eric has been crushing with his cream flymph on every trip...so I hear.

w

[letumgo]

As I study my photograph, I came up with a couple other ideas to try with this pattern. I'd like to try a version with a reversed wrapped cream CDC body (bringing the tread forward as a rib). I think I will try spinning the CDC with the peacock herl to have a thorax which is half CDC/half ginger peacock. The idea is to have a fly body which holds a bubble shroud over the full length. I think the tread rib will provide segmentation and allow some of the fly show thru the silvery bubble.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Jeff - I hope you did not misinterpret my comment. I honestly welcome the feedback and enjoy this sort of interaction. For me, it is the best way to learn.

[Mataura mayfly]

Na mate. All good.
Just me being me and trying to explain how I look upon a lot of yours and others patterns here and have no personal "American" experience to relate them to, so I immediately relate them to my local conditions and species without much knowledge of the naturals you are trying to cover all the way over there.

Carry on and resume normal transmissions.