I guess I was too brief. What I was asking was - during a hatch of mayflies you have dries and emergers going on at the same time. I was told the emergers if you were fishing both dry and fishing emergers that the emerger should be one size larger. Thoughts?
Sent from my iPad > On Nov 6, 2014, at 8:33 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > I guess it depends on where you're fishing. Around here, SE PA, there > usually a mix of caddis and midges, between, the sparse mayfly hatches on the > streams I fish. I normally fish a larger caddis, CDC and Elk, size 14-18 as > the lead with a size 20-22, midge dry/emerger as the dropper. If nothing > else the larger dry acts as a strike indicator for the smaller dropper. > > Jerry C > > ----- Original Message ----- > I was out today on the Provo River. I had a great day but it could have been > better. The BWO were out and before them there was a good midge hatch. I > caught 10-15 but lost a few and had lots of lookers. Here is my question for > the group. I tried a dry with an emerger . Someone once told me to go one > size bigger on the emerger. I was fishing 22 dries so I tied and used a 20 > emerger. Is this what you all do? > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
