Different nymph tactic

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


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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).

http://gula.org/roffswaps/recipe.php?page=DD2003&id=7

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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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).

http://gula.org/roffswaps/recipe.php?page=DD2003&id=7- Hide quoted text -

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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.

On Feb 25, 7:53 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.

The earliest example I can think of appeared in a book called
the "Gordon Garland," first published in the early 1960's sometime.
I have a first edition....think it was later republished by Gingrich
under a
different name. Had something to do with Theodore Gordon Fly Fishers
Club
in New Yawk.

It was an anthology of sorts, that included an Ernie Schwiebert
chapter about
"Cracker Barrel Discourses" ......about fly tying with various
luminaries.
One of those guys came up with an emerger that had a round styrofoam
ball encased in bit of panty hose.......so the nymph would suspend
just
below the surface. I tried it. It worked, sort of. Closed cell foam
seems
like the same thing, but more better.