BWO Pattern

George,

I fish a ton with a similar pattern - except I use Moose hair for the tail
and make the wing a little smaller and denser. Willi showed me the pattern
and it morphed a little at my vise. It's really effective in fast and slow
water and that's the best thing about that fly - and it's easy to spot on
the water.

bruce h

bruiser wrote:
George,

I fish a ton with a similar pattern - except I use Moose hair for the tail
and make the wing a little smaller and denser. Willi showed me the pattern
and it morphed a little at my vise. It's really effective in fast and slow
water and that's the best thing about that fly - and it's easy to spot on
the water.

bruce h



Why do you use moose hair for the tail instead of fibbets?

Willi

Willi & Sue wrote in
:

BWO's (at least out West) aren't a "family" in the scientific
sense. There are many different insects that are referred to as
Blue Winged Olives. They vary in size (usually small), color and
other characteristics. Many BWO's aren't blue or olive. To my
eyes, most are varied shades of gray.

snipped interesting stuff

Good info Willi. Local rivers here in the Northeast do exhibit the
same variety in size for Olives, but they do all have blue to slate
colored wings and are all olive, at least on the bottom of the
abdomen (trico duns also have olive bodies making the BWO a good
choice early in the hatch before the fish focus on the spinner fall).

There are large olives in the Spring and smaller varieties as the
season progress. The waters I fish don't see the pods of feeders you
refer to, but when there is a decent hatch going it will usually be
the choice pattern over all else on the water. Cloudy days in Vermont
about this time of year are wonderful for both olive and caddis
hatches and one of my favorite times to fish. The scenery is not too
shabby either!

On 29 Sep 2004 01:38:09 GMT, (Joel Axelrad) wrote:

George,
Report you success or the other for your last day this season. I wish I was in
Wisc. tomarrow and Thurs.
Have a great one!

Joel Axelrad
**DFD**

Hubris is usually punished, ainna?

The Fuzzball did take a few tiny fish during the early morning BWO
emergence but after that waned so did any success with my little harey
footed flies. I did catch a few decent fish. All on Pass Lakes. Here's
one of them.

http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035027.jpg

I fished the afternoon with a friend. He took a few on small
streamers. This was his best, a nice clean female.


http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035028.jpg


While I didn't have many fish to show for my 7 hours on the water I
did get to spend time outside on what would have to be considered a
perfect Fall day. And after all, the River will still be there next
year. Hopefully so will I.

g.c.

http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035032.jpg

George Cleveland wrote:


The Fuzzball did take a few tiny fish during the early morning BWO
emergence but after that waned so did any success with my little harey
footed flies. I did catch a few decent fish. All on Pass Lakes. Here's
one of them.

http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035027.jpg

I fished the afternoon with a friend. He took a few on small
streamers. This was his best, a nice clean female.


http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035028.jpg


While I didn't have many fish to show for my 7 hours on the water I
did get to spend time outside on what would have to be considered a
perfect Fall day. And after all, the River will still be there next
year. Hopefully so will I.

g.c.

http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035032.jpg



Pretty fish. Too bad all your streams close so early. Brookies and Fall
seem to go together. Although Brookies are always a colorful fish, in
Fall they seem to glow.

Willi

George Cleveland wrote:


The Fuzzball did take a few tiny fish during the early morning BWO
emergence but after that waned so did any success with my little harey
footed flies. I did catch a few decent fish. All on Pass Lakes. Here's
one of them.

http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035027.jpg

I fished the afternoon with a friend. He took a few on small
streamers. This was his best, a nice clean female.


http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035028.jpg


While I didn't have many fish to show for my 7 hours on the water I
did get to spend time outside on what would have to be considered a
perfect Fall day. And after all, the River will still be there next
year. Hopefully so will I.

g.c.

http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035032.jpg



Pretty fish. Too bad all your streams close so early. Brookies and Fall
seem to go together. Although Brookies are always a colorful fish, in
Fall they seem to glow.

Willi

On 9/30/04 1:12 AM, in article ,
"George Cleveland" wrote:

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I fished the afternoon with a friend. He took a few on small
streamers. This was his best, a nice clean female.


http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035028.jpg

Mmmmmm, brookies....

Very nice, George!

Bill

"Willi & Sue" wrote in message


Why do you use moose hair for the tail instead of
fibbets?


I like the way they look and float I guess, and usually just use four (two
on each side) to make a tail. Some moose hair has really pretty thin tips.
And I prefer natural materials ;-)

bruce h

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:57:15 -0700, "bruiser"
wrote:


"Willi & Sue" wrote in message


Why do you use moose hair for the tail instead of
fibbets?



And I prefer natural materials ;-)

bruce h



As good a reason as any other.


g.c.

bruiser wrote:
"Willi & Sue" wrote in message


Why do you use moose hair for the tail instead of
fibbets?



And I prefer natural materials ;-)


Yeah, that's what threw me!

Willi