Nymph
Dry Fly
Stimulator
Randall Kaufmann’s searching dry — a stonefly, a caddis, and a dry-dropper anchor in one fly.
$18.99
$1.58 per fly
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- Hook size
- 16
- Imitates
- Attractor, Caddis, Stonefly
- Best water
- Freestone River, Tailwater
- Colour
- Olive
- Pack
- 12 flies
How to fish it
Fishing notes
Search pocket water, riffles and seams. It can be twitched like a caddis or drifted dead like a stonefly — try both on the same run. Hang a bead head nymph 24 inches off the bend.
About this fly
Randall Kaufmann’s searching dry — a stonefly, a caddis, and a dry-dropper anchor in one fly.
The Stimulator floats high on a double-palmered hackle and an elk hair wing, which makes it one of the few traditional dries that survives a full day in pocket water. Its profile splits the difference between an adult stonefly and a large caddis, so it works during both hatches and neither.
Olive in size 16 is the versatile version — muted enough for pressured fish, large enough to carry a dropper.
Key features
- Double-palmered hackle and elk wing float it through heavy pocket water
- Profile works as an adult stonefly or a large caddis
- Olive size 16 is muted enough for pressured fish, big enough for a dropper
- Randall Kaufmann’s design, a standard western searching dry
- Strong dry-dropper anchor when a foam fly is too much
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