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Olive Stalker
Hook: Partridge Ideal Nymph #12
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, olive
Hackle: Whiting Brahma hen saddle, dyed olive
Body hackle: Hen, dyed light olive, sparse
Rib: Fine silver wire
Tail: French partridge, dyed light olive
Abdomen: Argentinean hare, amber
Thorax: Argentinean hare, dark olive

Cheers,
Hans W

I'm thinking Damsel or Ephemera when I look at this. I like the palmered light olive hen body hackle.

Aaron

Aaron,

Dragonfly/damselfly larva in my mind, but yes might be also large drakes. I would be more tempted for those to keep the pattern in the tan spectrum, though.

Cheers,
Hans W

mmm, nice. I would fish this with confidence in rivers or stillwater.

Hans Weilenmann wrote:I would be more tempted for those to keep the pattern in the tan spectrum, though.

Funny how time and place "colours" one's choices (pardon the pun). In my corner of the world, I equate olive with large green drakes, and tan/ginger with immature damsels (although the olive suits many mature damsels here as well).

Aaron

Aaron,

Your Drake nymphs are an olive?

Hans W

Both light and dark olive depending on the river system (and sometimes even within the same system). I should point out that our Green Drakes are rightly Drunella and not Ephemera.

Aaron

There are two insects in North America called a green drake. The eastern green drake (epemera guttalata) is for all intents and purposes the same as the danica. The western green drake (drunella doddsii) is considerably smaller and greener, and a crawler, not a burrower.

The reason I asked after olive is that all samples (in hand, and in images) I have seen of these burrowers have been tannish in color. I do appreciate that the dun has a strong olive cast.

Thanks,
Hans W

My apologies, Hans. I probably shouldn't have cited the Ephemera genus initially.

Aaron