Mayflies

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

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Matching the BWO hatch Oct 20. 2022 Mayflies Flies fitting the "Blue Winged Olive" description are important in almost every river in the trout fishing world More BWOs here	Combover Mar 17. 2022 Tonsorial The Combover is a generic mayfly nymph imitation. It gets its name from the hairstyle, now thankfully rarely seen. See how to tie it here
Einars’ Vulgata Emerger Mar 11. 2021 Floating This emerger pattern uses CDC and foam to create the floating thorax that’s typical of emerging insects See the pattern here	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.

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Video Blue Dun All Rounder Emerger:Dry Jan 27. 2023 Materials Used;	Video Mustard Green Drake Emerger Dec 5. 2022 A Sean Weir Fly Pattern.. Materials Used;	Video CDC Spent Nov 11. 2022 Spent spinners are the last and final stage of mayflies and beatis'.
Article Matching the BWO hatch Oct 20. 2022 Mayflies Flies fitting the "Blue Winged Olive" description are important in almost every river in the trout fishing world More BWOs here	Video Leisenring Pale Watery Dun Wingless Oct 7. 2022 Leisenring’s #10 favorite pattern.	Video BWO Nymph Sep 12. 2022 I got some emails with flies You wanted me to comment and suggest how to improve them...I hope this video helps.
Video Split Three Tails Jul 29. 2022 Another short video of how to split (fork) three tails.	Video Mayfly Wet May 20. 2022 This is not a traditional Irish Lough Mayfly pattern as it is dressed in a lighter manner than it’s big wave surfing cousins.	Video Tofting's CDC Mayfly May 20. 2022 The largest mayfly in Scandinavia are the Ephemera Danica and it’s stillwater relative, the E. vulgata. They are the same size, and the Vulgata tend to be a little darker than the Danica.
Video Golden Olive Dynamite Harry Apr 7. 2022 The Original Dressing of the Dynamite Harry was tyed by Jorgen Danielsson of Sweden...	Video Spring Olive Emerger Mar 30. 2022 This is a very effective Emerger for Spring Season, Hook size 12 Thread Olive Post Olive Deer Hair Body Dubbing from the same Deer Hair Patch with Holo Ribs	Video Regan's Mayfly Spinner Mar 30. 2022 A very interesting Mayfly spinner pattern that puts deer hair to good use for both the body and the wing post.
Video March Brown Nymph Mar 30. 2022 With it being the first day of Spring today, I thought a little March Brown clinger nymph would be appropriate. This is an easy tie that fishes up side down.	Video CDC Mayfly Dun Mar 30. 2022 An extremely effective Hi-Viz, Hi-floating CDC mayfly dun. This little pattern has a few interesting techniques that help make this a deadly choice on the end of your line during mayfly time.	Video Green Drake Buffet, Episode 2 Season 2 Mar 24. 2022 Big Brown Trout Eating Green Drake Dry Flies. Series Overview:

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