The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
March Brown
Medium - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
Brown Calf Body Hair or any Calf Body Hair is hard to work with, beginners can easily use foam, or McFlyLon Parachute posts
While this is a march brown parachute imitation, changing the pattern color just gives you a similar parachute adams, parachute BWO, PMD, Trico and more. It’s a standard dry fly parachute fly and while sticking to the materials will get you the same look as the video, this is just one of many examples of the variations that can occur with a mayfly parachute post style fly.
While a parachute adams need no introduction, the march brown parachute is just a slight variation of this famous pattern. This is a standard mayfly parachute post dry fly that substitutes a few specialty materials to make a very convincing and realistic march brown adult. This is a good example of working with some specialty materials to create a specialty variation of a proven fly like the parachute adams. This video also shows an alternative way to post hackle in a parachute form, which is nice to see.
While I could give numerous tips on fishing a parachute adams that likely are true for this fly as well, the best advice is to not worry about chasing an actual hatch. March browns hatch in a variety of different times from early spring to mid summer depending on where you’re located and the hatch is sporadic throughout the day most times. Because of al this, it’s hard to find an active hatch that is thick like other mayfly hatches. This is good however, because all you have to do is find waters where you know they could be hatching for the day and throw this in likely holding water. Fish will come up for this fly even when other insects aren’t on the water because of the sporadic hatching behavior.
Simple blind casting with a dry and an emerger trailing behind it is the best bet.
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Region: West, East
March Brown Sizes: #10 - #14
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Region: Northwest
March Brown Sizes: #10 - #14
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Region: Midwest
March Brown Sizes: #10 - #14
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