OLIVE EMERGER - FLY OF THE WEEK - November 30, 2009
FLY OF THE WEEK - OLIVE EMERGER
Emerger fishing can be a very rewarding experience
There are times when rising trout can be most exasperating especially when they ignore every thing you offer up for their inspection.
Quite often this is because the trout are dining on Emergers that in between stage in the hatching process when the rising body is neither Nymph nor Mayfly.
Weighted Flies versus Unweighted Flies!
Emergers are just that, aquatic nymph attempting to break through the water surface, in it's attempt to emerge as a adult winged insect. Some make it, other fail. The fish will attack both the submerged and surface fly. So there is room for both versions, weighted and unweighted, in an anglers fly box.
If a simple fly pattern is effective at catching fish, why go to the additional time, to dress a complicated pattern that is just as effective? I would rather spend my time at water's edge fishing, than at the vise dressing hooks!
~Parnelli