As the sulphurs will be coming off here in about a month, I’m looking for any new emerger or dry patterns.
Whatcha got that work??
This has been my best producing emerger pattern for the last couple of years…
Nice looking fly. That hook style is fast getting to be a favorite for emergers and flymphs. I’ve been using the TMC 206BL. Care to share your recipe?
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Very nice looking fly!! Is that hen hackle at the front?
Thanks,
Byron
The LTD is my best producing pattern across the board. It fishes the emergence as well as the duns.
Sulphur LTD
I don’t do a ton or trout fishing. I normally fling streamers. Just started to fish nymphs. Really like your fly.
Some that I use…
Nice patterns and wonderful tying gentlemen!!!
bobbyg - I have a spent sulphur spinner pattern that works very well on Penns Creek during the huge spinner falls we experience. Simple tie.
Hook: Standard #16
Thread: hot orange - shows through the sulphur poly when you add floatant
Body: sulphur poly (fine)
Wing: Hi Viz white poly - can get you 20+ extra minutes of fishing in low light evening conditions - tied in spent wing style
Tail: sulphur microfibbets (split V) - I tie them a little longer than normal dry fly length.
Tie in white poly spent wing 1/4 way behind eye (do not trim wings to size yet) - wrap thread to hook bend - tie in small ball of sulphur poly to help keep tail split (3 fibers per side will do it) - dub poly on thread and wrap towards eye - figure 8 sulphur poly around wings to build up thorax a little - wrap small amount of poly in front of wings and tie off - trim wings to desired length. Tie on end of tippet - cast - catch a fish - land - release - repeat! See easy!! Good luck!
Best regards, Dave S.
Bobby,
I have one almost identical, I am using iridesent turkey tail for the nymph body. try some. it has the sheen of peacock with only the bulk of a pheasant tail. Your fly is very nice!
The best Sulphur emerger I have used is a pattern called the Bum but I can’t remember where I got it from.
It is basically a scruffy looking pattern with a body of cream rabbit fur, a shuck of brown Zelon and a wing of dark to medium grey snowshoe rabbit foot, tied similar to the wing on an Elk Wing Caddis and trimmed; that’s it!
I fish it by putting a little floatant, in my case Liquid Mucilin on the wing so the shuck hangs down.
While there are sexier emerger patterns out there, the Bum tied as a Sulphur or any emerger has worked for me every place I have fished it including some famous streams with fussy fish.