Brahma and Red

[DUBBN]

Size 22 Dai-Riki 270
I picked up some nice fish with it today.

[letumgo]

Wayne - Are you targeting a specific insect with this pattern, or would you consider this an attractor/searching pattern? I'd love to hear the thinking behind this pattern, and how you fish this.

Really nice pattern, by the way.

I'm glad you were out fishing today. You da man!

[Roadkill]

Looks like a good hatching bloodworm pattern to me.

[ronr]

I'm just a sucker for beads on soft hackles. The size 22 is impressive and the hackles are really nice.

[DUBBN]

Looks like a good hatching bloodworm pattern to me.

It mimics large midge emergers in my local rivers. Winter for me, is a time of small baetis nymphs and midge larva/emergers.

Most of the time the midge patterns I use are smaller and I use mole as a collar rather than hackle. The hen hackle was for fun but still produced some trout.
size 22 scud hook

[Roadkill]

DUBBN

I just loved the hook you used so I had to tie up a couple of Dips during the Rose Bowl.
Here are a couple of #20's to test out this year.
RB Dip #1
IMGP9929 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

RB Dip #2
IMGP9931 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

I will tie up some SH's of both later.

Thanks for the inspiration!!

Bill

[ronr]

Bill what's your collar material...ostrich? Hitting the Crooked tomorrow... I'll try a couple of these and give you a report..

[Roadkill]

Ron,
You got it, tied with the big bird!