Crackleback

Developed by Ed Story in the mid 1950's. The fly and the method(s) to fish it was an instant success. Now fished worldwide.

Dress the hackles with floatant and fish dead-drift as a floating terrestrial in the surface film. If no hit near the end of the drift, jerk the fly beneath the surface and skip it across-stream with the rod tip, or strip it back to you with the line-control hand as a moving sub-surface emerged. Or to fish it deep, use a full sinking line or sinking leader system with a split-shot on the tippet 15" above the fly. Skip or strip the fly just off stream or lake bottom.