Fall and winter on our local tailwaters means small bugs. This month we feature two of our favorite dry flies for this time of the year.

When the weather takes a turn for the worst most people think only of saying home, where it’s warm and dry. Trout, however, are anything but lethargic, regularly picking tiny dries from the surface. These hatches are not always a sure thing and do not follow a daily schedule as to when the hatch will begin or end. Typically a day of nymphing will be interrupted from time to time with sudden flurries of these bugs. One can only keep a sharp eye for their emergence and hope they might be in the right place at the right time.

RECIPE

Hook: TMC 100, 101 size 18-22
Tail: Brownish olive Anton
Abdomen: Olive or grayish olive turkey biot
Thorax: Olive or graying olive dry fly dubbing
Wing: Natural, dun or light dun CDC

RECIPE

Hook: TMC 100,101 size 20-24
Abdomen: Black dry fly dubbing
Wing: White CDC
Thorax: Grizzle hackle over black dubbing