Top 3 Mayfly Dry Patterns

[Byron haugh]

Thanks Silver. I call them "emergents" to indicate they have broken through the miniscus. But, what is #2 and 3????

[billyspey]

Does "last standard dry with hackle clipped short on bottom" mean catskill???

just a standard dry with hackle clip to ride on surface , I have better luck with surface ridding fly.

[Steven]

Wonderwing half-spent
Wonderwing parachute
Parchute

[Chuck441]

"Catskill"
parachute
Rene Harrop's hair wing dun (try it- you'll like it!)

Chuck

[johnstoeckel]

Got to second Chuck on the Harrop Hair Wing. That's my first choice in most cases.
1. Harrop Hairwing
2. Parachute
3. Sparkle Dun

[Silver Creek]

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Thanks Silver. I call them "emergents" to indicate they have broken through the miniscus. But, what is #2 and 3????

For the 5 stages of emergence see: Film Flies


"TStage 4. The adult crawls forward out of the immature skin and enters stage 4. The immature husk hangs nearly empty from the end of the adult, the wings are inflating, but still rumpled, and the adult body is parked on top of the surface. This is the time for Sparkle Duns, Cross Dressers, or Sparkle Caddis Emergers. These flies nestle in the film, with the tail of sparkling fibers forming the empty husk.


TStage 5. The insect completes the extraction process and begins stage 5, the final hardening of the wings necessary for the full adult stage. This is the time of the Wet/Dry Fly, Quigley Cripple, and other similar sub-adult imitations."

[Byron haugh]

Silver,
I had asked for your no. 2 and no. 3 picks which you omitted - not insect stages, but thanks.


See second definition:
Definition of Emergent:

e?mer?gent (-m?rjnt)adj.1.a. Coming into view, existence, or notice: emergent spring shoots; an emergent political leader. b. Emerging: emergent nations. 2. Rising above a surrounding medium, especially a fluid. PS There is also a later stage. Even the fly which is totally out of the shuck is still a subimago. It is not until they molt again; become sexually mature, that they reach the Spinner stage. So, I still need your #2 and #3? Thanks, Byron

[rvrwader]

For me it would be:

1 - Parachute
2 - Comparadun
3 - Catskills

[Silver Creek]

Silver,
I had asked for your no. 2 and no. 3 picks which you omitted - not insect stages, but thanks.

So, I still need your #2 and #3? Thanks, Byron

I replied previously page 1, 3rd post.

[EdD]

In no particular order:
Catskill-esque. (I tend to use synthetics for the wings.)
Parachutes.
Variants (i.e. wingless dries).

Ed