Euro Golden Stone

The pattern is a euro nymph and it’s best fished that way.  Jig style flies are great regardless of how you fish them, but when you don’t use an indicator you can fish fast water that is often overlooked because your flies don’t get hit with as much drag due to the indicator being on fast water.  Stonefly nymphs are often residing in fast water to take advantage of the oxygen and food available to them and when they get dislodged, they are poor swimmers and trout key in on that often eating them in riffles or tops of holes as the fast water moves in.  Euro rigs get a fly down in the strike zone faster and long and more naturally.  Try fishing this fly without an indicator in a 2 or 3 fly configuration as the middle or point fly.