Thread: Tying a Sulphur Emerger/Cripple

Before Dennis sells the site up the river, here's another tying video. This fly evolved from a popular parachute style fly used for the Pale Morning Dun hatch on the Missouri River in Montana, about 20 years ago. We had been taking fish on the parachute style fly fairly well, but noticed quite a few fish refused it at the last second. That fly was similar to this but had a pheasant tail abdomen, clipped elk hair post and pale dun hackle. After catching a few cripples in the film, I noticed quite a few were partially out of their shuck and the adult color was visible through the nymphal shuck. So I came up with this technique to imitate that abdomen, and simplified it by using caribou hair for the emerging wing in place of the post and hackle. It worked very well then and still does for the Pale Morning Dun's, and here in the East for the sulphurs. I usually start with a more basic pattern like a sulphur usual or thorax, but tie this on when the trout get fussy. If you don't have caribou hair, deer hair works just fine for the wing.




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Great pattern Matt ! I always tye this with snowshoe and have success with it..Will have to try it with the caribou as well .. Very nice!

That looks like a killer pattern Matt. As soon as I saw the video, I went to the vise to tie it.

Like the way you showed the detail of how you prepare the touch dub to create the halo effect.

Great job!

Nice twist on the half back emerger. I am surprised you didnt use snowshoe! Nice tie Matt.

Very nice - now I know what I'll be doing when I get home tonight... Thx.

Always enjoy these videos.

Very nice Matt - thanks.

Thanks everyone.

I've tied them with snowshoe foot, and they don't seem to be as effective as with the hair, for me at least. If you have caribou, try it, it floats like a cork without floatant. It is harder to work with than deer and not as readily available, but once you get used to it you may use it for other patterns that use deer. I know guys out west that tie them with comparadun hair, and that seems to work well for them. Whatever works for you, do that. Alter the colors and size, and it works for other mayflies as well.

I think the key to the fly is that the touch-dubbed ribbing halo collects lots of tiny air bubbles aroudn teh abdomen, which may be a trigger. Only the trout know for sure.

Matt

Originally Posted by Matt Grobert

Thanks everyone.


I think the key to the fly is that the touch-dubbed ribbing halo collects lots of tiny air bubbles aroudn teh abdomen, which may be a trigger. Only the trout know for sure.

Matt

OH NO Matt...

Mudbucket is the only one who knows for sure.

Sure... sure... sure... sure.... sure... sure.... sure....

Originally Posted by AKSkim

OH NO Matt...

Mudbucket is the only one who knows for sure.

Sure... sure... sure... sure.... sure... sure.... sure....

A.K. How does it taste? You should wipe your chin.

Excellent fly, it works,