Neat ties, Neville. They should really work. I bet they'd be good bass
flies too.
af
On 6/7/12 11:52 PM, Neville Gosling wrote:
Chuck& others:
Several years ago, I tied up some Hexagenia patterns and never used them until one
day on the way back from fishing a river I was passing through a lake connected to
the river and experienced my first ever hexagenia hatch. Fortunately, I had a
couple of yellow deer hair paradrakes with me and managed to catch coastal&
probably sea run (as opposed to westslope) cutthroat on a dry fly. This happened
approx mid June and I'm going back to the same place next week to fish for sea run
bull trout, but if there is a hatch of hegagenia, the cutthroat will also be a
target . The weather here in BC is crummy and daily temperatures several degrees
below the seasonal average, so I'm not that hopeful.
These flies were tied several years ago, just in case I run into a hatch. They
are all fly box battered by now.
The first pic shows my interpretation of a hex using a "tube bodiz" which ios
really cheating.
The second pic is a paradrake.
The third pic shows a hexagenia tied on an upsde down Swedish dry fly hook;
The fourth pic is a bullet head paradrake which is the one that I had the
success with 7 or 8 years ago.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
Greater Vancouver
BC Canada
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