Sparkle Purple Haze

The Purple Haze has everything you love about a Parachute Adams (visibility, float-ability), except something about that purple dubbing makes the trout want to chew.

Use the sizing to suggest different bugs (size 18 for smaller mayflies/midges, size 12 for terrestrials).

The Sparkle Purple Haze is a visible mayfly attractor dry fly for trout feeding near the surface. It borrows from the confidence of a parachute style mayfly pattern but adds color and sparkle to help it stand out in changing light and broken water.

This fly is useful when trout are eating mayflies but a standard dry is hard to see or not getting enough attention. The purple body gives it a strong trigger profile while still keeping a mayfly style footprint on the water.

Fish it dead drifted through riffles, seams, tailouts, and evening hatch windows. It can work as both a hatch matching dry and a searching pattern when trout are looking up but not locked onto one exact insect.