Half Chubby Chernobyl

This fly fishes very well as a main attractor fly, especially when the trout are either shying away from the larger terrestrials, or just can’t seem to fit the fly in their mouth. If fishing this fly as a single dry, try to slap the fly down on the water to get the trout looking at your fly, the way a larger terrestrial might land in a normal cast. The smaller size of this fly allows it to imitate a much larger spectrum of terrestrial insects that are along the river bank, making it a producer even in those dog days of the summer, when trout have seen too many size #8 morrish hoppers and full sized chubby chernobyls. Don’t be afraid to give this little guy a twitch as soon as it hits the water to really stimulate those rubber legs to look even more like a scared terrestrial bug getting swept into the water.