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Originally Posted by NewChief
In Arkansas, which is all tailwater fishing, it's pretty much the same flies year round with a few exceptions (like hoppers when terrestials are out). Midge patterns (zebra, jujubee, black beauty, rainbow warrior), scuds (UV scud, Mclellan's hunchback scud, flashback scud), sowbugs (Mclellan's v-rib sowbug, ostrich herl sowbugs), and soft hackles (red ass) are the goto flies day in and day out. Oh, lots of people fish wooly buggers as well.
The only significant hatches we get are caddis and sulphur, but the fish don't really key in on the dries even when a hatch is full swing.
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I just hope I catch them while they are on the rise this time. I did last trip, but it took all day. I would just as soon use the dry flies and leave the the others alone if I can help it. I had one big hawg that I could see that would rise, sit there and look at the dry on the surface and slowly swim off. It drove me crazy until I landed him after about an hour. Nailed him with a blue wing olive.