Recipe for cripple/emerger that was pictured in my last post:

[aileen]

@aileen

This is a fly created by Matthew Grobert and published in Fly Tier’s Bench. Use hook size and dubbing according to whatever mayfly emerger you are creating.

Hook: #16 Tiemco 2487 or 2488
Thread: yellow 3/0 monocord; yellow 6/0 monocord
Tail: dark amber Z-Ion
Rib: brown 3/0 monocord touch-dubbed with brown dubbing.
Abdomen: Yellow 3/0 monocord.
Thorax: Yellow dubbing
Wing: Caribou hair (tied in using 6/0 monocord - since caribou hair is very light and cuts easily, don’t use threads finer than 6/0.)

The fly I tied in the picture looks pretty scraggly after playing around, but I think it made it look more buggy.

Enjoy!

This is the recipe for the cripple/ emerger I tied and posted picture in my last post (Weaved Stone Fly).

[Ron_Eagle_Elk]

Thanks Aileen. I think I’ll teach that fly at my next class, after I stock my emerger box with a row or two.

[jmeyerc]

Thanks for the pattern Aileen, I definately will try it -just gotta get some caribou hair first - do you have to use Caribou? can you use Elk or Deer instead?

Jeanne

[aileen]

Yes, you can substitue for deer or elk hair but, I think it would give a totally different look to the fly. Caribou is great dry fly material. It sheds water and snow, is very light and hollow. The hair is softer than deer or elk.

Hope you find some!!

[JohnScott]

Aileen -

Neat looking emerger. It seems to me you could substitute snowshoe foot hair for the wing for the same, if not quite so sparse, effect. I’ve used it for the wings on similar emerger patterns, and if you get the good stuff, it is pretty easy to work with and floats very well.

John

[aileen]

@JohnScott

Aileen -

Neat looking emerger. It seems to me you could substitute snowshoe foot hair for the wing for the same, if not quite so sparse, effect. I’ve used it for the wings on similar emerger patterns, and if you get the good stuff, it is pretty easy to work with and floats very well.

John

I will try that! Thanks, John

Aileen