Gary LaFontaine's Buzzball

The Buzzball is ridiculously simple to tie, easy to see on the water, and extremely effective in a variety of situations the variable here is the orange hackle used in the original pattern. If you use brown or black instead of the orange, you can cover a variety of lighting and hatch situations. I've also found that substituting a cream colored hackle for the orange is extremely effective for the spruce moth which occur on the west-side, freestone streams.

• Hook: Tiemco 100 or 101 - standard dry fly hook
• Size: 14-16
• Thread: 8/0 brown
• Body: Medium dun and orange grizzly hackle palmered and trimmed to hook gape
• Overbody: Grizzly hackle
• Wing: Antron, white or clear