[MyAlberta]

I like my dry flies to sit high and dry. Once it’s on the water, I let it float. I don’t do anything to encourage it’s sinking, or create leader wake. Different story with a wet fly, which gets an array of action. When fly nymphing, I shoot it out, give it time to sink, then jerk it back in.
When I buy leaders, I buy them for light dry casting. As they get consumed, and stouter, they get switched to wet and sinking.
For Alberta parkland lakes, the Idaho has out produced any nymph I’ve tried