A parachute San Juan Worm? What would the application be for such a fly pattern? I just found it on a website selling it as “Perry’s Para Worm.”
It seems like a bit of a stretch to me. Okay, it seems like a very BIG stretch. :?
LOL, Im sure it caught somthing somewhere, or some fisherman somewhere.
Eric
That’s one of the silliest flies I have ever seen. Must want to catch very green fishermen with it.
John Perry originated a very good fly…Bugmeister…and put out a well done DVD on fly tying…some solid techniques …sure don’t know what that fly is supposed to do…other than “something different”.
This fly was developed by the 101st Airborne. When the Para Worm parachutes out of the sky, the Vertical and Front Stabilizers SLOWWWWWSSS!!! the Para down, WAY down!!!, So the on-board camera can do survelliance of the FISH! 
P.S. It was Top Secret until someone exposed it on the net.
Doug P.S. P. S. OK! so I don’t know how to spell survaylance!!! :lol:
Dougie,
I bet it does even better in a “freefall”, but what if that worm loses it’s chute? :lol: :lol: :lol:
I think it’s time to invent parachute bead head nymphs! That way, next time I fall in, I can see my fly underwater.
Mike
Mike,
Bass Pro has Underwater Video Units for the Bass Guys and it could be rigged to a Fly (Para Worm Bead) The fly camera would have to be tiny, but those Tech Engineers need something to do!
Doug
I could see this fly working very well but I do not think I would have tied it like that.
Joe Fox
Ohiotuber, everybody know what happens when a parachute fails to open. You get a streamer.
BTW, Dshock, the 101st is airmobile.
The 82nd is airborne
I have friends who are alumni of the 82nd and they are quick to jump on that, pardon the pun.
Ed, who likes tanks (stock and otherwise)
Ed,
Thanks for correcting me. I POSITIVELY wouldn’t want any 82nd Airborne guys mad at me! 
:shock:
It would be interesting to see IF the Para(chute)Worm decended slower than other flies after being pushed out of a C-130!
Doug P.S. Ed, IKEA furniture store is opening today by the Portland Airport and YES, there were many people camped out all night in line… To Buy FURNITURE!!! :lol:
they already do…cabelas had them in their 06’ catalog.
Chris,
You must have better eye sight than me, cause I didn’t identify any parachute beadhead nymphs in the Cabela’s catalog???
What I did notice…,
Terrestrials–Foam Dave’s Hopper, BLT and Taylor’s Fat Albert.
Doug
oooops it said beadhead nymphs!
i meant like i saw the parachute nymphs that hung a little below the surface with that wierd huge thread post.
Emergers!
would those still be considered emergers?
i classified emergers if they sat in the surface film :?
Chris,
They were referred to as emergers in the catalog. I’ve never used them. The soft hackle flies are what I’ve always thought of as emergers. Why would a fish spend time eating para emergers, when they could spend their time eating actual emerging mayflies?? Who knows??
I’m sure someone around here has some info on the subject.
Doug
no, I think DShock meant Worm Emergers! Actually the fly appears to have 4 ingredients (not counting thread and hook) so could be assessed as ‘complicated’. Perhaps it could be considered a bi-butted Klinkhammer Special, it should be called a Siamese Klinkhammer.
WORM EMERGERS??? I have some experience with them. When I was young, my Dad , Brother and I would crawl on the lawn with flashlights and ‘Grab’ worms that emerged at night. Some of those worms were uncooperative, cause they pulled back in order not to be used as fish food.
Doug
and if they were deep in the hole they got pulled and ripped in half! :lol: :lol: :lol:
To this day I don’t hold a grudge towards my Dad, even though he was so CHEAP! and wanted to humiliate his kids by crawling around in the dark on wet grass, not knowing WHAT could jump out of the bushes and get us!!! THANKS DAD!!! :lol:
Doug