On Feb 25, 9:53 am, "Danl" danlfinn@*remove this*intergate.com
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That's a good example, Stan. To be clear, I didn't think I found something
new under the sun. Foam wing emergers are very popular on, for instance, the
San Juan. I have found that, for me, the combination of a foam wing case and
a brightly colored wing case seems to be a good combination.

BTW, I met Marla on my one-and-only trip to the Farmington. Seemed like a
knowledgeable lady.

Danl

"Stan Gula" wrote in message

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"Danl" danlfinn@*remove this*intergate.com wrote in message
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Anyone else tried a this or a similar method?

Danl

Here's one I have used many times on Western Mass and CT streams (like the
Farmington).

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I have used the jailbird and some cariations of it with success, but
my favorite flies of this type are emergers fished in the film. I
began tying some with a foam thorax, so that the body of the fly would
sink and the thorax would float in the film. Since then, I have gone
to a fur thorax with either a CDC or Hare's Foot wing.

Last season we had a very spotty Hendrickson hatch in this area, but I
had reasonably good success fishing an emerger pattern that I learned
from Dan Trela, a well known local tyer and rodmaker. The pattern
consists of a very sparse trailing shuck of brown Z-Lon, a brown Larva
Lace body, with a thorax of brown synthetic dubbing. Dan favors CDC
for the wing, but I prefer Hare's Foot for the larger emergers, such
as the Hendrickson. This is tied on a Tiemco 200R or similar hook,
with the front 1/3 of the hook bent, so that the body hangs down at
about 45 degrees. The thorax and wing were treated with Floatant, and
the result was a highly visible wing above the water, with the body
below the surface.

Rather than fishing to rising fish, ( there weren't many), I fished
the water, and had very good results, including a couple of really
nice browns on the Farmington.