A Ray’s fly inspired black nose dace that worked well for me this this year with smallies..

Very nice!

Nice fly. Been tying a lot of Rays and closely related flatwings lately. Might have to try one like this...

Did you use red hackle fibers under the body?

I tied these last week; basically the original pattern with a little bit of short red bucktail tied in first. And I didnt have any light green or yellow thread handy.