Matt Grobert
6/0 Olive Danville
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 PMD 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 pmd'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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