Black Beauty, Dorsey's

"The original Black Beauty was invented in the early 1990’s to imitate the heavy concentrations of midge pupae found in tailraces below deep, bottom-release reservoirs. Don’t let the simplicity of this pattern fool you—it consistently fools selective trout all over the United States. While the original Black Beauty performs extremely well, adding a clear, silver-lined glass bead (Mercury Black Beauty) or combining a silver-lined glass bead and some Mylar tinsel (Flashback Mercury Black Beauty) increases the natural translucency when it comes to imitating an emerging pupa. A tungsten Bead Head Flashback Black Beauty (swaps the silver-lined glass bead for a black tungsten bead) has the same goals in mind, but has a quicker sink-rate and works well for dry-and-dropper applications.  In its embryonic form, the Black Beauty had no name, it was just a generic black midge pupae that had earned a spot in my fly box because it was easy to tie, durable, and most importantly—it consistently fool