Saturday, 23 April 2011

Soon be time for these. The Mayfly

I tied some of these up last night I got the size 12s and 14s done. Its good to know that the Mayfly will be hatching soon..and if this settled weather stays then we wont have long to wait.  I hope that the hatch is on a par with last year. This simple pattern has worked really well for me over the years and is pretty unsinkable,,



I tie them in size 14, 12 and 10 the size 14 can at times work very well although they are smaller than the actual insect. I need to tie some size 10s  then some mayfly nymphs. and maybe a few klinkhammer style emergers,

4 comments:

Dustin's Fly Box said...

what is the body made up of? Great fly

Becks and Brown Trout said...

dressing is body is 1 mm packaging foam ribbing is black floss tail microfibbets. hackle silver badger,

Midge Man said...

Beautiful tie! I'm looking so forward to the point where the hatches are regular and stable here!

Unknown said...

If like my river your short of rain, you may see some as soon as next week?

So lets talk about the past year and the future...

  It really has been a strange sort of a year . A spring so wet it was biblical .  Followed by a summer that never really matured it was eit...