I'm pretty much a gear guy, but when my fishing buddy talked me into
buying a pontoon boat, we started fishing our local lowland lakes.

He told me to buy some flies called a Six Pack and some Woolley
Buggers.

I've been dragging a combo of two Six Packs and one Woolley Bugger for the past six years or so on the local lakes around Monroe.

I was down to my last two and needed to re-supply.

Fortunately for me, Ron at www.allaboutthefly.com in Monroe tied up a dozen for me which came in the mail today.

When I cleaned my stockers for dinner tonight, I quickly saw why
Six Packs work in local lakes.

I have no idea what the little critters are that they imitate but a Six Pack comes really close to what they are feeding on.

Here's a photo from today, 5-20-11.

Sebastes,

I think the Six Pack simulates a dragon fly nymph best, even if loosely, then a damsel nymph, and a larger caddis nymph. Mostly it just looks buggy more than it imitates a specific insect. Woolly Buggers are pretty good leech imitations.

Sg

Hard to tell looking at the picture on a mini laptop, but those look like some waterboat or backswimmers and some lake caddis cases.
A six pack is a really good pattern. Tom Darling at the Avid Angler turned me on to that pattern many years ago.

What's the recipe? The body wrapped with pheasant tail? Looks easy enough to tie.Kind of looks like a soft hackle with a tail. I've had good success at time just fishing a soft hackle in a lake.