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General patterns are fine to start.
As you become more familiar with southwest Wisconsin's streams and hatches, you can plan for more hatch-specific patterns. For more information, see our page devoted to a general selection of flies for southwest Wisconsin. Although the highest quality dry flies will float longer with a little false casting, a good fly floatant will improve matters considerably. Floatants come in a variety of types, and most work well. Even if you bring prepackaged, knotless leaders, we recommend adding a short length of stiff butt material.