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.
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.
