Blue Winged Olive!!!

[raiderhunter]

I am needing to know if anyone has the recipe for this pattern...I am considering a trip to the famed San Juan River in New Mexico and this is just one of the flies recommended.

[rainbowchaser]

Its a small mayfly pattern in sizes 16 to 26. dun tails,hackle and wings. olive body. some species are betterr represented by a brownish olive body. Try a parachute for fussier trout.

[Jayatwork]

There are many variations of BWO out there. My basic go-to BWO is a parachute.

Hook: Dryfly 18-20
Thread: Olive
Tail: Dun hackle fibers of micro fibbets
Wing post: White antron yarn or similar
Body: Grey-olive superfine
Hackle: Medium dun

[Sully]

Here's a couple...http://search.freefind.com/find.html...&query=BWO&t=s

[flywatersmallie]

I fish, primarily a hi vis bwo parachute. Yellow/pink poly yarn post, medium dun hackle, olive or rust and olive mixed superfine dubbing for the body, 2 paint brush bristles splayed for the tail. Carry an assortment from size 14 down to maybe 20 and you should be pretty well covered for dries. Also, some loop winged cdc emergers and little pheasant tails and you will be good to go for those hatches. Bwo hatches are great! A real challenge presenting to fussy trout.

[JohnScott]

Here's a FOTW, which is a version of the best BWO pattern I've fished.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flyt...041309fotw.php

I really like it with the loop wing as shown, but as a practical matter, using an antron wing / post makes for an easier tie and a more durable fly.

This fly produced for me better than any other BWO I've tried on a great little tail water fishery in the Central Mountains of Idaho - a river I thought of more as a nymph and midge larva stream until I started using this pattern there.

John

[kbproctor]

Here is a traditional styled BWO.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flyt...082905fotw.php

[Normand]

check out some of the patterns from this fishing the san juan river website

http://www.ifly4trout.com/flypatterns.htm

cant go wrong with an adams parachute

[Sully]

I am needing to know if anyone has the recipe for this pattern...I am considering a trip to the famed San Juan River in New Mexico and this is just one of the flies recommended.

The San Juan is the Disneyland of trout fishing. When you can stand in waist deep water....and have 18 inch trout swim BETWEEN YOUR LEGS...you stand there in amazement.

One of their saying's is that the only reason you use a #22...is because you dont have a #24 in your flybox.!!!

[herefishy]

One of my good producers is a comparadun - 20 to 22, olive, gray, brown. Try tying it with orange poly for the comparadun wing. A must have for baetis is the RS-2, 20-22 in gray, iron gray, or brown or olive. BWO patterns run the gamut, rather than being one certain pattern. But don't be without your midges. They're talking of closing the park, including the river, on Christmas Eve, so keep track of that.