Imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but when it comes to catching fish with a fly, trying to visually match every possible hatch or life-cycle stage of an insect is just overkill. A simpler approach is to focus on keeping a more suggestive pattern where the fish are likely to be feeding and imparting lifelike action to trigger a strike. The soft-hackle flies in this box will help you do just that, covering the range of hatches most commonly encountered on stream, and are meant to be fished just under the surface of the water to represent an emerging insect. Each box contains one dozen soft-hackle flies.