Hank Patterson said it best: “Nymph fishing…the exact opposite of why we all got into fly fishing in the first place.” Well, dammit, he’s right. We don’t lose sleep thinking about that time the bobber went down. The vision of that huge trout slowly rising to your perfect drift is what brings you back. Everyone has their “perfect take,” but if you are fishing these dries, you are going to have a lot more of them.