Mayflies

A type of flying insects with aquatic larval stages. AKA Ephemeroptera.

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Euro BWOs Revisited Apr 14. 2020 Imitations In our continuous effort to obtain better and more practical mayfly imitations, we discovered a few new and simple solutions. Much more here.	CDC Loop Wing Foam Emerger Dec 28. 2018 Floating A simple and very hard-to-sink emerger from Russian Dmitri Tseliaritski See how to tie it here
The Mighty Green Drake Nov 20. 2018 Summer pleasures The large mayflies are a summer phenomenon, but it might be worth reading up on off season. Get ready here.	Euro BWOs Mar 12. 2015 Entomology Blue-Winged Olives (BWOs) are very widespread and important insects when it comes to trout fishing on most rivers both throughout Europe and the US. Read more and see some patterns here

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Video Owl Dun Feb 21. 2021 Lockdown fly tying day (demonstration) - famous ,,flytubers" have prepared fly tying for you on Sunday. Support their creation and give them a subscribe. Have a nice day guys !!	Video Barr's Viz-A-Dun Feb 12. 2021 John Barr's Viz-A-Dun is a great little mayfly pattern that is durable, floats well and makes a great indicator style dry fly for hanging a small emerger or micro dry behind.	Video The Breath Feb 7. 2021 The Breath is an emerger of bigger mayfly which is made of an owl feather. Owl's feather is super soft with lot of micro barbules that "breathe" in water and suggest life.
Video Thorax Dun - Marinaro Style Feb 3. 2021 The Thorax Dun a la Vincent Marinaro from “The Modern Dry Fly Code”	Video Detached body mayfly Jan 31. 2021 Detached body with deer hair and CDC, hackle and some dry fly dubbing. Almost fish guaranteed on this fly in the Vulgata hatch,	Video Emerging/Spent LDO Jan 30. 2021 Hook: Hanak H360 BL #12 Thread: UTC 140D Olive Rib: Fish On Silver Wire 0.14 Thorax: Snowshoe (dyed olive) Wing: Troutline Campbell Tan CDC
Video CDC French Partridge Mayfly Dec 21. 2020 Materials Used;	Video Hi Vis Pale Evening Dun Dec 10. 2020 Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill size 14 Thread, Uni-8/0 Lt-Cahill Tail, Whiting Coq de Leon Fibres Body, Orvis Dry Fly Dubbing Pale Even Dun	Video Blue Winged Olive Nov 19. 2020 Hook # 14 Thread Olive Body Elastic Stretch 0.5mm Hackle White CDC Wing Mallard Feather Tail Grizzly Cock Hackle
Video Olive Panama Fly Nov 14. 2020 Materials Used;	Video Dirty Yellow Mayfly Nov 4. 2020 This bushy top dropper can be very effective around mayfly time, but is also worth having in the box later in the season too.	Video Grey Rollover Mayfly Oct 20. 2020 Patsy Deery's Rollover Mayfly is a great choice for blowy days when the fish are up eating duns on the surface. It also makes a pretty decent dapping fly when the mayfly is on,.
Video Ceanis/Trico Spinner Oct 14. 2020 The smallest of the up-winged may flies. Although ideally matched on a # 20-26 hook it is possible to get away with a # 18. A couple of interesting techniques here for the tails and wing.	Video Mad Magenta Sep 26. 2020	Video Large Mayfly Nymph Sep 15. 2020 A nice pattern for most of the larger mayfly nymphs. Not only an easy but semi realistic tie but an extremely effective pattern with some good techniques that can be used for other nymphs.

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