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July 15, 2024

Go-To Fly Patterns for the Mayfly Menu: Part II – Duns & Spinners
Following up on our last article breaking down the mayfly hatch into Go-To fly patterns, we are leaving the nymph heavy breakfast and lunch menu (making up 80% of the mayfly meal), and move now into the dinner course comprised...
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September 6, 2018

How to Match Dry Flies from a Distance
Knowledge is power, and in the case of the fly fisher, the greater your ability to identify the insects that trout feed on and choose the correct fly pattern, the more successful you will be on the water. The adult, or dry life cycle, of aquatic insects is brief. Mayflies will spend 6-12 months [...]
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January 15, 2017

A Fly Fisher's Guide to Identifying and Matching Mayflies: Part II
The importance of the mayfly in the diet of trout cannot be overstated. In my work as an aquatic biologist studying and sampling trout waters across country, I've seen populations of Blue Winged Olive mayfly nymphs crowding Rocky Mountain streams topping numbers of 1,200 nymphs per square meter, slow moving herds of green drake [...]
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Go-To Fly Patterns for the Mayfly Menu: Part II – Duns & Spinners