"Larry L" wrote in message
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the most consistent failures I encounter revolve around "Tiny Fall Baetis"
Each day in the late season has a hour or so when the baetis are crawling
all over your waders, fish are feeding like crazy, and only a few can be
caught .... never with that "problem solved" feeling. I "think" the
fish key on subsurface spinners, egg layers awash, but I've tried every
pattern I've seen and made up a few myself ... none worked with that
mentioned efficiency of a "solution"

tie a few of these over the winter:
Hook--standard wet fly, sizes 16-20
Thread--Danville 6/0 olive brown
Rib--yellow silk or cotton buttonhole twist
Hackle--starling

Tie on thread, run to bend, tie in ribbing, run thread back
to a bit short of the eye. Rib with yellow thread, tie off.
Hackle wet fly collar style with starling, 3 or 4 turns will
do. Tie off a neat head and finish. For some reason, this is sort of the
only fly that works for me during large periods
of Sept and October here in PA, where little olives are the daily fare.
Enough to be a "solution" fly?? Try it and get back to me......
Tom