Tying these this morning in a size 17. Just wondered if anyone else ties the PMD Sparkle Duns with a darker abdomen since it is sort of a cripple still within a bit of shuck? Colors didn’t quite come through. The Zelon shuck and the abdomen are sort of a Epeorus/light amber insect color.
Let me know.
Thanks,
Byron
Tie an E/C Caddis with the same sort of contrasting colors, but rarely fish the Comparadun. Have never noticed that it makes much of a difference.
I think it makes a lot of sense. I think of emergers as half nymph and half dun. There are some excellent emerger pictures at troutnut.com like …
I tie a lot of Fuzzballs (or Snowshoe emergers). Many of them are tied with hen or duck body fibers for the tail, PT or a dark dubbing for the abdomen, dun colored dubbing for the thorax and Snowshoe hare for the wing.
Love that fly.
As tied by originator
Mao,
That is on the lines of an X-Caddis with parachute? Do you think it is taken as a caddis or a mayfly, or both???
An Elk Hair Caddis is an adult caddis - fully emerged.
A Sparkle Dun represents the inhibited emergence of a mayfly - in this case, a PMD. The shuck of the PMD is darker than the fully emerged sub-imago. That is why I have the darker trailing shuck and the rear abdomen.
Byron,
The “E/C Caddis” isn’t an elk hair caddis. E/C = emergent/cripple, and the two tone body of the E/C is for the same reason you described on your PMD above.
Got ya. I interpreted it incorrectly. Thanks for the correction.
