CDC Sulphur Dun
We arrived on the river at about 10:30AM when the water was just going down from a short 3 hour generation. We hoped that it would be a warm day and possibly some Sulfur Mayflies would still be hatching. We soon found out that we would not be disappointed. Ernie started catching fish right away on a new JU JU midge that he had tied. We were both using a Sulfur Compara Dun for the dry fly, and a midge dropper, about 24 inches below that. I saw small Grey midges hatching off and I had tried a fly that I created called a Grey Ostrich Buzzer. Both of us were having luck and by noon we began to see a few Sulfurs hatching off. I took a break to run to the car and get some dessicant and when I got back into the river the Sulfurs were hatching off at a good pace. It is just amazing to see such good hatches coming off this late in the year and the fish were really getting turned on. Within minutes of getting back into the river, I had a fish on and the Sulfurs were flying all around me. It seemed like that almost every other cast that I would have a fish take my fly, and most were taking the Sulfur Compara Dun. Where could you go to find fishing as great as this at this time of the year? In the middle of this new stretch of water, my friend Ernie came by, and he had been catching fish regularly on Sulfur Compara Duns and Rockhold Sulfur Emergers. I finished the last stretch of water that I was going to fish in about 1 hour, and by my count, I had gotten 31 strikes and landed 22 of the fish. What a great day it had turned out to be. This beautiful tailwater continues to produce all season long and it has been exceptionally productive this year.
This week’s typing tip is in response to a question by Hatches reader, Nick S. from Boise, ID. Nick wanted to know if we had any suggestions for a small, lightweight fly tying vise to use streamside, or on backcountry fly-in/ hike-in fly fishing trips.
GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS, FALCON), November 1997
Binding Type: Hardcover
Retail Price: $16.95 at the Hatches Store
ISBN: 1-55821-067-9
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