Mayflies

Fly Tying Recipe:
Hook: #10-14
tail - teal
body - pheasant tail feather
rib - copper wire
thorax - peacock feather
wing rudiments - pheasant tail feather

The WD-40 is one of my favorite flies for fishing rivers and lakes where there is a good population of small baetis and midges.

Small mayfly patterns are essential in every troutfishers flybox, and this delicate small CDC emerger of a Blue Winged Olive is a fine bid on a “must-have-pattern”.

This is probably the most important and universal mayfly dun that you can have in your box!

An absolute must pattern if you are fishing mayfly hatches! Some very different and interesting techniques for this unusual parachute pattern.

A Submerger Designed to Look Like a Silvery Plastron on a Sunken Baetis spinner.

Tying one of the biggest Mayflies to hatch in the world Hexagenia Limbata.

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I'm not sure of the origins of this interesting pattern but it looks very fishy as both a Dun and an emerger.

When the Green Drakes (the largest of the may flies) hatches, it’s the trout- and grayling fly fisher’s best chance for some of the river’s largest fish on a dry fly.

Tying an Irish Mayfly Pattern Hint of Pink with Scott Jackson 2024
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Hook- Kamasan B175 size 10
Thread- Uni 8/0 Red

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This parachute pattern is a variation of the famous Klinkhåmer, originally invented by dutch flytyer and flyfisher Hans Van Klinken and the pattern has proven its worth during the last 40 years all

If you need to fill up your flybox with an effective dry-fly patterns of mayflies, have a look at this fine pattern - tied only with a few hackle-fibres and two grizzlyhackles.

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Pat Nolan of Premier Angling CDC..

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A relatively new pattern that I have only fished with this season, that has proven extremely effective, especially in the smaller sizes.

A Not Too Steady Flow Of Mayflies is fly fishing tale from the season of 2023.

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20 Incher Fly Tying Recipe:
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Hook: #08-14 Tiemco 200R or 201R

Bead: 5/32 Gold Tungsten Bead

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A midge to Baetis crossover pattern with trident tails like seen on Baetis mayflies but tied with a downwing like a midge.

This technique was shown to me many years ago by Dennis Jensen and his father, Richard, from Denmark.

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