BWO Spinner in size #22

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I’ve been tying a bunch of these little buggers lately…

Depending on the number of insects on the surface of the water, I like to fish this mayfly spinner as a dropper fly both on the surface and below. I like to go the opposite. If there are a lot of insects floating spent on the surface, then I fish this fly as a drowned BWO. If there are only a few mayfly spinners on the surface, then I float this fly. I want the odds in my favor and don’t want my fly to compete with the hundreds of real spinners available.
BWO Spinner size #22 tied and photographed by Doug Korn

materials list:
hook: size #22 dry
thread: MFC olive 8/0
tails: micro brush fibers
body: MFC olive thread 8/0
wings: Needloft yarn in white -
which will be a reflective clear in the water.
thorax: DK#4 olive dubbing
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Doug,

Very nice fly. I use something like that in different paint schemes for tricos, but tie it on an emerger hook (Dai Riki 125) to get more gap clearance.

Regards,
Scott

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Yes Scott that’s a good point for the smaller hook sizes like this one… I’ve done that myself, with scud or emerger type hooks you can tie a size 22 fly on a size 20 hook because of the shorter shank and benefit from the larger hook gap… that’s a good tip for folks Scott, thanks.