Hi Preston,
Thank you for sharing your pattern. I am going up this weekend and will try
it during the hatch. I went up last year on the opener and there were some
hatches coming off so hopefully we can enjoy some early dry action again.
The emerger I tie is similar only with a white foam piece instead of the
deer hair, very deadly in about three weeks. Like you said though, of coarse
it needs to be worked on. I'll be up there for ten days at the end of the
month eeeeeeeeehhhh, I cant wait.
Have you heard anything on the triploids planted a couple of years ago in
this lake? Will they get big like the fish in Lenice?
Fish on,
Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: Preston Singletary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Washington Fly fishers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:20 AM
Subject: Chopaka Emerger
> Wes,
> Over the last few years I have changed the way I tie the Chopaka Emerger
> (after all, how can you not fix something even if it ain't broke). I
> borrowed some ideas from Norm Norlander and made some observations of
> emerging Callibaetis and the current version is as follows:
>
> Hook: Standard 1x fine dry fly, #14 in the spring down to #18 by fall
> Tail: small clump of deer hair
> Body: Nature's Spirit Callibaetis dubbing
> Wing: deer hair
> I dub the body 1/2 to 2/3 of the way up the shank, tie in the wing at that
> point (tips of the hair should extend to about half the length of the
tail).
> Dub over the butts of of the deer hair then bring the wing forward over
the
> back and tie it down just behind the eye of the hook, leaving the tips
> flaring up over the eye. Take three or four turns under the deer hair tips
> to prop them up a little and whip finish.
>
> What led me to start using the deer hair tail was the observation that
> Callibaetis lie horizontally in the surface film as they emerge. I have
also
> tied it with a well greased Z-lon tail (after all, how can you.....) to
> represent a trailing shuck and it seems to work just as well. One thing
> that I like about this fly is that it gets better looking as more fish
chew
> on it and the dangling broken strands of deer hair begin to look like legs
> and other appendages. I fish this pattern right through the hatch and the
> fish generally seem to prefer it to imitations of the dun.
> Preston
>
>
