Deadly early season pattern. I add a peacock herl thorax, behind the bead. I also use just a thread body . I use small wire for ribbing . The fly floats just below or on the surface . Very effective. I'll have to tie up a few of this pattern as well. Thanks for sharing
With natural peacock quills, you always need to break of the brittle tip. The top third to one half is more prone to breakage. Alternatively, you can soak them in water beforehand to limit breaking as well. I consider the super glue option only when necessary. In UV resin coated flies, I don't think it is worth the hassle.
Hi Trout Flies, Had a nice time in your area this past week. I put on a bunch of miles hiking up and down the middle Provo and was able to be pretty much alone most of the time. I caught good numbers of browns each day, but they were very small fish, the biggest maybe 12". I don't think I got anything on a dry fly or saw any rising fish, but the dropper worked well as did Euro-nymphing with anything from a midge to a stonefly. The Green River was more productive as is to be expected, but the dog days seemed to have taken hold there also with no noticeable hatch and limited interest in subsurface offerings. My son got a dozen 16-20" rainbows and browns on midge cluster type dry's while my wife got only one nice Bow deep nymphing while floating the A section with a guide. I got 6 nice Browns 3 on hoppers and 3 on dropper wading up from little hole. Great scenery, nice people, and plenty of fishy water in Utah. I look forward to putting everything I have learned to use next time I visit. Thanks for your help, Gus
Hey Gus! Glad you were able to get into a few. I was hoping that your trip would end up alright. I was on the Middle Provo last week and it was tougher than I expected. When I stopped in at a local shop, the talk made me feel fortunate to get into the ones I did. Usually we get a few clouds and thunderstorms this time of year that really help the PMDs hatch on the cloudy afternoons and help concentrate the Caddis on sunny ones. Instead we've had about 4 straight weeks of high pressure, heat, and bluebird skies. It's really discouraged fish and led to sporadic insect activity on our tailwaters. Glad to see you did a bit better on the Green. That place is a treasure.
TroutFlies The weather was too perfect for the trout, but coming from 95 degrees and and 100% humidity it was glorious and invigorating for us. Coming in August was out of the need to work around my sons school schedule, maybe July or September next time. Tight lines
Deadly early season pattern. I add a peacock herl thorax, behind the bead. I also use just a thread body . I use small wire for ribbing . The fly floats just below or on the surface . Very effective. I'll have to tie up a few of this pattern as well. Thanks for sharing
Glad it's working! It's lowkey a great stillwater pattern, especially over shallow weedbeds!
HI , I broke the peacock quill three times before I put zap-a-gap on the thread wraps before paltering the quill foward and it worked much better.
With natural peacock quills, you always need to break of the brittle tip. The top third to one half is more prone to breakage. Alternatively, you can soak them in water beforehand to limit breaking as well. I consider the super glue option only when necessary. In UV resin coated flies, I don't think it is worth the hassle.
Soak them in water
Hi Trout Flies,
Had a nice time in your area this past week. I put on a bunch of miles hiking up and down the middle Provo and was able to be pretty much alone most of the time. I caught good numbers of browns each day, but they were very small fish, the biggest maybe 12". I don't think I got anything on a dry fly or saw any rising fish, but the dropper worked well as did Euro-nymphing with anything from a midge to a stonefly. The Green River was more productive as is to be expected, but the dog days seemed to have taken hold there also with no noticeable hatch and limited interest in subsurface offerings. My son got a dozen 16-20" rainbows and browns on midge cluster type dry's while my wife got only one nice Bow deep nymphing while floating the A section with a guide. I got 6 nice Browns 3 on hoppers and 3 on dropper wading up from little hole. Great scenery, nice people, and plenty of fishy water in Utah. I look forward to putting everything I have learned to use next time I visit. Thanks for your help, Gus
Hey Gus! Glad you were able to get into a few. I was hoping that your trip would end up alright. I was on the Middle Provo last week and it was tougher than I expected. When I stopped in at a local shop, the talk made me feel fortunate to get into the ones I did. Usually we get a few clouds and thunderstorms this time of year that really help the PMDs hatch on the cloudy afternoons and help concentrate the Caddis on sunny ones. Instead we've had about 4 straight weeks of high pressure, heat, and bluebird skies. It's really discouraged fish and led to sporadic insect activity on our tailwaters. Glad to see you did a bit better on the Green. That place is a treasure.
TroutFlies The weather was too perfect for the trout, but coming from 95 degrees and and 100% humidity it was glorious and invigorating for us. Coming in August was out of the need to work around my sons school schedule, maybe July or September next time.
Tight lines
Good looking pattern 🤘🏻-ry
Thanks!