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Dry

Mosquito Dry Fly

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Difficulty Icon Medium - 5-7 Min
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Tying Recipe
  • Hook: Down Eye, 1X Fine, Wide Gape
  • Thread: UTC 70 Denier, Black
  • Tail: Dry Fly Hackle Fibers, Grizzly
  • Body: Dry Fly Hackle Quill, Girzzly
  • Wings: Dry Fly Hackle Tips, Grizzly
  • Hackle: Dry Fly Hackle, Grizzly

This list of materials may look like it’s a normal length, but don’t be fooled. This fly really only uses one material, just the various different parts of that certain material. Because of that we don’t have any substitutions for materials on this fly.

Mosquitoes don’t vary too much in color or stature, so variation is difficult. You are more than welcome to tie this fly in some crazy attractor colors, and they just might work incredibly well. For the most part though, just stick with the recipe, and have a few sizes on you at all times.

Mosquitoes are a part of life in the mountains, but people usually can’t find anything good to say about them. If you’re going to go out and get bit, you may as well take advantage of it and catch fish on them while you’re at it! This fly is super natural, and a food source that is extremely steady. They get overlooked sometimes, but they should be in your box every summer.

The Mosquito Dry Fly does especially well when it’s fished in the high country. Whether you’re hiking up to your favorite high alpine lake for cutthroat, or headed to a blue line to try your hand at the feisty brookies, you should have a handful of these bugs in your box. Fished alone with a subtle presentation will get strike after strike.

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