Blues dude, nice list, and a big welcome. Care to share a recipe or pic of your choices? I'm not familiar with the orange fish hawk and would like to hear about your cahill pattern. William, My apologies been slacking on my forum visits! I wish I could take decent pics to post but am not outfitted ...

Jim, I believed you. You didn't need to bring a friend to vouch for you. Bluesdude59, great name. I love Blues, especially with a Stevie Ray Vaughn type vibe. I was born in 59. So welcome to the site. It is great to have you with us! Stevie Ray... one of my favs too.. a true loss. Thanks for the we...

Yeah I lost track of my old compadre for about 20 years... but was able to get back in touch and actually got to spend a week at the Campfire Lodge last July... to experience the finest dry fly fishing for rainbows and browns that I have ever experienced to date. God when I think back... we used to ...

When you can pluck this stone from my hand grasshopper, you will know the secret!!!! I graduated highschool with Jim (it's amazing either one of us made it) and can vouch that the stimulator is a "Slattery Special"... To me it is the only one out there with that much "eat me" to ...

Sweet... gonna have to give that pattern a try... though I will likely use red seal on thorax instead of Wapsi Super Bright. Thx

Tough to narrow down fellas, but for me, over all seasonal patterns:

GR Hare's ear flymph
Pheasant tail soft hackle
Gold rib peacock and furnace softy
Orange Fish Hawk
Cahill Flymph

Course this is New Jersey Waters talking...