Fly of the Week #8

My fly photos are slowly getting better. I still have a ways to go until I'm happy with how they come out, but at least I'm making progress.

"Blue Bead Dry / Soft Hackle" - Size 12
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Here is another fly where I combined dry fly and wet fly hackle together. The dry stiffer hackle behind the blue glass bead and the partridge hackle in front. The whole thing is tied with unwaxed brown thread. Although untested at this point, I'd imagine it would do pretty well given the buggy look of it. Similar flies have done well on the Lower Stan.