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ScottT
04-19-2003, 01:52 AM
In my hand I hold a fly,
That I cannot identify.

Seriously, I fished the Weber tonight and in between wind/hailstorms I was all over tailwalking browns once I found something they wanted to eat!

A now-moved-on friend gave me a couple of these flies a few years ago and I don't recognize them, I'm pretty sure he got them from Orvis (obviously paid too much...). Size #16 & #18.

Description is the best I can come up with, one completely tore up & one well mangled:

- dubbed olive body
- no tail (at least not now)
- single grey CDC wing, tied 45 to body like a caddis fly w/ bit of partridge (I think) over top.
- palmered grizzly hackle over black dubbed thorax/head

What do you think? They loved it (yeah, today...).

Scott
Jason
04-19-2003, 02:10 AM
SOunds like a CDC BWO emerger type pattern.
Trout4x
04-19-2003, 02:23 AM
Does this look like it?

http://www.flyfishingconnection.com/patterns/flies/128/Blue+Wing+Olive+emerger+(cdc)
ScottT
04-19-2003, 02:51 AM
T4X,

Almost, but the palmered hackle is not there. Maybe this is some bastard pattern, though I doubt it. Hard to spot on the water, though. We're talkin' "proximity strikes" here. It was definitely bigger thean the prevailing BWOs.

Scott
carpman
04-19-2003, 08:37 AM
Sounds like an RS2 variation. Rene' Harrop ties some patterns that are similar..........
flyfshr8
04-19-2003, 07:02 PM
Same thing on the upper Provo yesterday. Is it a thorax pattern BWO (!??! with a grizzly hackle??)

Do you mind if I ask what size the naturals were?
ScottT
04-20-2003, 01:10 AM
flyfshr8 -

Standard BWOs, #18 size - at least that seems to be the standard along the Weber where I usually fish.

It was almst like the browns could sense the coming storm - things went crazy for last hour before the hailstorms hit. Earlier when the weather was nice and the sun was in & out of the clouds - bunch of whities and one lone 6"-7" brown. He must have been "slummin' it" with the whities that afternoon.

As the wind picked up, and the darker clouds moved in, zero whities and the browns seemed to take up residence in the same feeding stations where the whities had been.

Lot's of fun - going to crack me a brew, put on my bifocals, and tie up a couple of these - whatever they're called - right now.

Gotta go.

Scott