Dry fly

Yellow Humpy

Fast-water searching float

Trout · GraylingSurface

Buoyant yellow-bodied humped-deer-hair attractor dry — a fast-water searching float that suggests duns and stoneflies.

Fish this when

As a blind searching pattern on fast pocket water and riffles through summer, when no specific hatch is showing but fish will still move for a bright, buoyant shape.

Why it works

The humped deer-hair back and high-floating silhouette punch through broken current the way a struggling yellow mayfly or small stonefly does, giving fish an easy target to commit to without close inspection.

Naturals it imitates