Female Mosquito

[PEISalmo.BrookieHntr]

Heres a Female Mosquito that I tied up for the upcoming season (Only 20 More Days !!!!). In my opinion, The Female works better that the Male Mosquitos. Tie up a few and I guarantee you will have some sucess with it. Has anyone heard of it before?

Female Mosquito:
Hook : Standard Dry (Size 10 - 16 is What I Fish)
Thread: Black Uni 8/0
Tail : Grizzly Hackle Fibers
Butt : Orange Red Thread
Body : Thread
Rib : White Thread
Hackle : Grizzly

Here it is...


Thanks, Nic

[J Castwell]

Usually a female version of almost any fly uses yellow for an egg sack of some sort, but with yours it must represent blood. Only one sex bites,,, which one is it?

[PEISalmo.BrookieHntr]

Hmm.. Nver heard of using yellow? I didn't mean That they only eat Felmale Mosquitos, What I meant is that I would cast 20 Times and Catch and Release 4 trout when using Male and 8/20 with the Female.

Just my preference to use the Female most of the time but I still do use Male.

Nic

[Ron Eagle Elk]

It's the females that bite and draw blood, they however make no buzzing noise. The males feed on plant juices and make the noise that drives us all nuts. Something about having two different types of malaria that makes you learn a bit about mosquitoes.

If a fish can trigger on something as small as an egg sac on a mayfly, the color of blood in a female mosquito just adds to the meal for a hungry trout.

REE

[jdubach]

Great idea to improve on a diehard pattern in my neck of the woods! Thanks for the tip!

[DBenner]

Oh, this brings back nightmares!!!!!!!!!! of a good kind.........

Back when in highschool, there was a gentleman in the town I lived in that used mosquito flies exclusively. Every year I tied 100 of these suckers, pun intended, (of the male variety, ie. no red at the back) on a number 10 or 12 dry fly hook. I thought my eyes were gonna go out of my head but I did them faithfully for him for several years. He had come to the point in his live where he could no longer tie flies, and, I had to tie them the same way he did so he would be happy. No wings, 3 or 4 turns of grizzly hackle, black body with white thread, grizzly fibres for tail. When he passed away, his wife told me that he had almost 200 of these little suckers squirrelled away for use.

As a note, in the summer, mosquitos here turn a little brown so tying the same pattern but all in brown is effective also.

Nice fly and yes, effective.

Dwight

[EdD]

<snip> Only one sex bites,,, which one is it?

I wonder if Deanna explained this to Mr. Castwell...




Ed, who has been known to bite yellow perch on the banks of the Au Sable

[PEISalmo.BrookieHntr]

Wayneb, I fish it a lot but right when the sun is going down the trout go nuts for them.

Raw69, I fish them dry just because I love dry fly fishing. There are other patterns that are a Wet version of the mosquito. The male can be tied with the grizzly hackle quill or just with a black body ribbed with white thread or you choice of material.

Nic

[MikelC]

As a resident of the state that uses the mosquito for a state bird (lol). I almost ran away from the computer screen. Nice tie !!! I like the red butt, should make it very effective.

Mike

[scubatim]

I will be tying up a bunch of them tonight.