Here is a wet Daddy of mine that works.
Hook: 10 L/S
Thread: brown
Body: straw coloured raffia
Rib: fine gold wire
Rear hackle: brown Partridge
Front hackle: GP tippets.
In the book Flies of Scotland the pattern has a short palmered hackle of ginger cock.
Other than that is similar to one I use.
There are plenty of dry versions about, the detached body & foam ones being popular.
Another good version incorporates deer hair wound round a darning needle & secured with tying thread.
I keep mine simple & tie with chestnut coloured fibres from a Cock Pheasant centre tail feather for the body.
A couple of cree or Furnace hackle tips for wings. Hackle is Furnace & legs are knotted body fibres.
Does just as well as the modern types.
All about shape & silhouette.
Word of caution, early on when daddies are about the Trout will sometimes ignore the natural.
Maybe they are just scared but once they have taken a few they soon home in on them.
The Trout will invariably slash at them as if to drown turn round & then take.
Dapping is the best way to fish this fly to my mind, can be quite an exciting way to fish it.
They are ungainly fliers at the best of time but take a late August or September wind blowing
off long grass on to water & sport can be quite brisk at times.
Tight Lines
A nice Kinardochy Brown with the Daddy still in it's jaw.
Tight Lines
Daddy help
explosive takes, its a water were they nearly always jump clean out when they take off the surface 
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