Looks more like Candy Corn to me.
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"Catch 'em all ~ Put 'em back!"
Looks more like Candy Corn to me.
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"Catch 'em all ~ Put 'em back!"
Wow! thanks Diane, That's exactly what I've been looking for. My favoriate stream here in lancaster county,Pa. has a wonderful corn kernal hatch this time of year just before dusk, it's truly a sight to behold, corn kernals everywhere and every fish in the stream rising to them in a feeding frenzy.
I'll surely be including this fly in my fly box
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Beer....much more than just a breakfast drink.
[This message has been edited by tea stick (edited 03 June 2006).]
tea stick, every summer I go up to a convention in Lancaster, PA. I've seen what you are talking about. The odd thing about this hatch is the the larval stage of corn is actually a terrestrial. I've seen fields in the area with thousands and thousands of corn larvae per acre. Clearly Diane has seen this hatch too, as her fly is such a good match. Down here there are actually different color phases of them. White is fairly common, but there is a type that can be all sorts of colors; red, blue, mottled, even black. I've often wondered if the darker colors fish better at night...
This is me looking down my nose. Corn?!
When this hatch is on us "upstream and dry guys" use only the native and pure *maize* fly.
Corn fly - ewwww.. excuse me. I feel like I need a shower.
"Flyfishing is not a religion. You can make up your own rules as you go.".. Jim Hatch.. 2/27/'06
Maybe not as a "maize"ing as the corn fly, but I've got a pretty kewl popcorn fly that takes bluegill on a super hero rod (or Snoopy, or Simpson)! Also made as a cheese popcorn fly for the adventurous fishers!
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Trouts don't live in ugly places
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
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Well, I'm still pretty new at this but from what I can tell in my reading so far, that multi-colored maize hatch seems to happen in the northeast in the last week of October and the month of November. I'm thinking Steelies on the Lake Ontario tribs and a box full of maizies. Yeehaw!
"If I'm not going to catch anything, then I 'd rather not catch anything on flies" ... Bob Lawless
Nice work Dianne. I received a corn fly pattern from a tyer awhile back in a swap.
Allll I can say is take that you blasted stocker trout.......weeeeeee are onto your corn fly hatches !!!!!
After all this banter, you folks may have just legitimized the corn fly for all of fly fishing.
I'll be waiting for a corn fly piece in the next edition of Grey's Sporting Journal...
And just for the nitpickers and entomologists...
[url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Corn+fly:69c46]http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Corn+fly[/url:69c46]
I think we have a new swap concept here. Perhaps the "non-PC" swap or a trash fish swap or even a corn swap. Maybe when the ones I'm in now finish....
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