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 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.
Video Mayfly Wet Sep 11. 2020 Heres an older pattern for a wet mayfly that can still hold its own today.	Video CDC Emerger Mayfly Sep 11. 2020 A superb little CDC generic mayfly emerger that ticks all the boxes when the hatch is on. Tied in most sizes and colour combinations this is one of my top trout flies.	Video Generic Cripple Mayfly Aug 13. 2020 One fly to match them all. A simple but extremely effective cripple mayfly pattern that with a little adjustment to size and colour will produce fish in most hatches.
Video Sili Baetis Nymph Jul 27. 2020 Silicone materials offer many possibilities. Colors and combinations with foundations give a lot of ideas. This is one of them ... a very natural nymph in sizes 12-8.	Video Extended Body Isonychia Parachute Jul 4. 2020 Detailed instructions for tying an Extended Body Isonychia Parachute fly. Tying table by TieCraft: https://www.tie-craft.com	Video Ugly May Jun 18. 2020 An extremely quick and easy, yet effective pattern that can be mastered by tyers of all levels.
Video Hummingbird Mayfly May 27. 2020 This fly was tyed just for a bit of fun and for my daughter..	Video Olive CDC Humpy and a Caenis CDC Humpy May 22. 2020 Materials Used; Olive Humpy, Hook, Fulling Mill Ultimate Dry size 20 Thread, Uni-8/0 Yellow Tail, Coq De Leon and Natural Grey CDC Fibres Body, Uni-8/0 Yellow	Video Golden Brown May 16. 2020 A simple to tie mayfly nymph. Shaded organza fibres tied in along the side of the thorax give this nymph great legs.
Video Yellow May/Sulphur Dun Emerger May 14. 2020 Materials Used;	Video Yellow May Emerger May 5. 2020 A tried and tested Yellow May emerger fly pattern, which covers the emerging / hatching stage of the Yellow May Dun. It would also cover you for the Sulphur Dun fly hatch.	Video MP 33 Mayfly Nymph May 1. 2020 A Marc Petitjean pattern, with many different CDC techniques. Its the proportions that you have to balance with this pattern, tail length, short abdomen, long thorax & long slender head.

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