By Barbless Editor Materials for Gray Ugly (purchase using links): • Hook: Daiichi 1180 #8-18 • Thread: Danville Gray 6/0• Tip: Silver Tinsel• Body: Peacock Herl• Rib: Fine Silver Wire• Hackle: Grizzly Hackle• Tail: Grizzly Hackle Fibers Materials for Beaded Gray Ugly: (purchase using links) • Hook: Daiichi 1180, sizes 12-14• Thread: Uni-thread Gray 8/0• […]
The Chironomid Suspender is a good emerger pattern when fish are feeding just below the surface. The CDC will allow the fly to floatjust below the surface. The fly will sit in the water at an angle just like a natural Chironomid. The CDC is often presented as the wing, yet itreally represents the gills
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by Ken Burkholder, Boise, ID. Fish this big Royal Coachman variant during grasshopper season or when the big stoneflies are popping. Ken Burkholder recommends fishing this pattern and his Undertaker TM with a loop knot to increase their movement on the surface of the water. “This fly was a new creation for 2002,” says Burkholder.
