The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Midges, Quill Gordon, Callibaetis and 4 others
Medium - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
It’s really easy to crowd the hook eye on this pattern when you’re starting out. The goose feather is bulkier than it appears in the video. Make sure to leave ample room (2x hook eye length) in the front to make sure it comes out clean. Make as few of wraps as possible up on the head cause it fills up fast even with 70 denier or 10/0 veevus/thin thread.
Major vairations are in color and I like doing olive and grey and black though many more will work well.
This is a cheap fly to tie and anyone living next to a pond or park can go pick up a few goose feathers and use the dubbing they have at home to piece this together. It’s a more difficult pattern than it appears and the portions around the head take a little practice not to crowd the eye, but it’s end result is a super buggy and imitative mayfly emerger pattern that’s great for fishing anytime you see or are just in front of a mayfly hatch of any kind.
The back eddies where the water spins and creates a foamy surface is a great spot for emerging insects. Trout feed without worry here as they are well protected. Fishing a bright colored strike indicator in the foam with this as a trailing fly is a great way to detect strikes and fish this type of water. For the more common runs holes and riffles where fish feed on emerging mayflies as well, fish this as part of a 2 fly set up with a mayfly dry like a parachute adams in front to detect any strikes. This fly will float on the first few casts, but sink just slightly after and that’s when the fish seem to like it best.
| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West
Callibaetis Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: Northwest
Callibaetis Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: East
Callibaetis Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: Midwest
Callibaetis Sizes: #12 - #18
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: East, Midwest
Hendrickson Sizes: #10 - #16
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: East
Isonychia Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: Southeast
Isonychia Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: Midwest
Isonychia Sizes: #12 - #18
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: East
Light Cahill Sizes: #12 - #20
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Region: Midwest
Light Cahill Sizes: #12 - #20
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Region: Northwest
Light Cahill Sizes: #12 - #20
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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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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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, Northwest, East, Southeast, Midwest
Midges Sizes: #14 - #26
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: East, Southeast
Quill Gordon Sizes: #12 - #16
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