Nice tie and great point on the "on water emergence." I had always been told, "...all stones climb out and hatch off rocks or branches...." Since then, I've seen Sally's hatch off pooled water many times.
Nice fly, this emerges mid water unlike any other stonefly and hatches right at dark, I have been tying this fly as an emerger since 1978. It is deadly on the Henry's Fork and anywhere yellow sallies are found. My version has rubber tails and three separate legs tied at 45 degree angles to the body from Hungarian partridge hackle. Soft hands and soft drifts are necessary with this pattern. It fishes as a nymph or emerger depending on how you drift and mend it...
I regularly see them hatch at all times of the day, on Sept 3 just a couple days ago I was fishing a pool where they came off for over 4 hours from noon til 4 pm when I left. In fact I've never seen them hatching at last light at least in my neck of the woods. I've seen them hatching as early as 10 in the morning as long as it's warm enough.
I look at a lot of little yellow sallies from the underside every July (they're on my window screens here in the eastern Catskills). I've never seen the red butt on any of them, and I view that as a fly-tying old wives' tale. And most people view the red butt as imitating an egg sac. But why would an emerger, which, by definition, has not mated, have an egg sac? Anyhow, my thought is that the best thing you can do if you believe your yellow sallies are emerging mid-river is to fish a Partridge and Yellow soft hackle in the appropriate size.
Howard, do you fish this emerges on the dead drift or swing or both? Here in Northern Michigan we have some pretty big yellow stones, one of my favorite bugs to fish, I always get excited watching theses yellow helicopters burst out of the water.
It couldn't help flotation, but more important, it's completely unnecessary. If you spin your thread back to tighten it sufficiently again after you've inserted the cdc in the split thread, it's never going to come out. Waxing is just a waste of time.
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Nice tie and great point on the "on water emergence." I had always been told, "...all stones climb out and hatch off rocks or branches...." Since then, I've seen Sally's hatch off pooled water many times.
Great tip!
Nice fly, this emerges mid water unlike any other stonefly and hatches right at dark, I have been tying this fly as an emerger since 1978. It is deadly on the Henry's Fork and anywhere yellow sallies are found. My version has rubber tails and three separate legs tied at 45 degree angles to the body from Hungarian partridge hackle. Soft hands and soft drifts are necessary with this pattern. It fishes as a nymph or emerger depending on how you drift and mend it...
I regularly see them hatch at all times of the day, on Sept 3 just a couple days ago I was fishing a pool where they came off for over 4 hours from noon til 4 pm when I left. In fact I've never seen them hatching at last light at least in my neck of the woods. I've seen them hatching as early as 10 in the morning as long as it's warm enough.
Great info. Thanks. 👍. New patterns out on the channel if you are interested. -H
I look at a lot of little yellow sallies from the underside every July (they're on my window screens here in the eastern Catskills). I've never seen the red butt on any of them, and I view that as a fly-tying old wives' tale. And most people view the red butt as imitating an egg sac. But why would an emerger, which, by definition, has not mated, have an egg sac? Anyhow, my thought is that the best thing you can do if you believe your yellow sallies are emerging mid-river is to fish a Partridge and Yellow soft hackle in the appropriate size.
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Howard, do you fish this emerges on the dead drift or swing or both? Here in Northern Michigan we have some pretty big yellow stones, one of my favorite bugs to fish, I always get excited watching theses yellow helicopters burst out of the water.
Hi Justin, hopefully Howard will see this at some point. -H
I would think that dubbing wax rubbed into CDC would compromise the natural flotation of the CDC.
It couldn't help flotation, but more important, it's completely unnecessary. If you spin your thread back to tighten it sufficiently again after you've inserted the cdc in the split thread, it's never going to come out. Waxing is just a waste of time.
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