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bobbeegee	Sulphur Flies		Lead	[-]
Posts: 1621 05/06/2008 19:14	Tags : None The sulphur fly hatch is just beginning on one of my favorite tailwater streams. I'm looking for suggestions on members favorite patterns to match this hatch. I've always fished the traditional pattern and done fairly well with it. Just wanting to try some new, maybe more effective patterns.......emergers also! Bob
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pittendrigh		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 137 05/06/2008 23:15	bobbeegee wrote: The sulphur fly hatch is just beginning on one of my favorite tailwater streams. I'm looking for suggestions on members favorite patterns to match this hatch. ============================================= The flies we call Sulphurs here in Montana look like extra-small, slightly tannish (rather than yellow-olive) Pale Morning Duns. They hatch in the late afternoons and early evenings in mid-to-late summer. The Duns fly off from the surface almost immediately, rather than riding the surface film the way the PMDs do. Not surprisingly, the trout seem to ignore the ephemeral duns, and eat the still half-submerged emergers. The nymphs are so small almost anything (of vaguely the right color) seems to work just fine. Cream/tan Serendipity nymphs, or even cream midge larvae. Our Sulphurs might not be the same bug. Where are you fishing? How big are the bugs?
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byrdog		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 510 05/07/2008 10:35	I've always done well with a parachute when their rising to dun's. A patridge and yellow wet works well earlier in the day. Tim
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mvbrooks	Sulphur Emerger	#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1652 05/07/2008 14:02	A great Bibio pattern for both the regular fly and the small sulphur... hook: Mustad 94840 #16 (#18 - small sulphur) thread: light brown silk tail: three fibers yellow tinted pale dun Coq deLeon body: dressed thin --- one turn of a dubbing mix - 50% bright red dyed hare's mask + 50% regular hare's mask (to make a definite, but dirty, reddish hot spot) remainder of 25% yellow dyed hare's mask + 75% regular hare's mask hackle: over the entire thorax region, yellow tinted ginger-furnace with one or two turns of yellow dyed partridge mixed in (NOTE: the red hot spot is very apparent in the natural - hold them up to the light - likewise, the definite yellow in the remainder of the body. This pattern works extremely well for tyhe Western Pale Evening Dun's and the PMD's, with the PMD's tending towards an orange color in place of the red.) Last Edited By: mvbrooks 05/07/2008 14:51. Edited 1 time.
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bobbeegee		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1622 05/07/2008 17:30	Thanks for the replies. Mike that appears to be a great emerger pattern. I'm not sure it would work here in the East but I'd sure like to give it a try. The flies I normally fish are the traditional pale yellow body with very light bluish/gray dun tail, hackle, and wings. Size 16 is usually the ticket, sometimes the little 18. This is a very good match. Beautiful little mayflies. The hatches are rather short-lived. Any other suggestions? Bob Last Edited By: bobbeegee 05/25/2008 07:05. Edited 1 time.
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rollcast	Sulphurs	#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 730 05/21/2008 19:53	West Branch Anglers on the Delaware has great sulphur patterns. Call and ask for suggestions. Their fish are much pickier than ours.
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Light Cahill	BiBio	#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 8 05/21/2008 21:15	Is this the same pattern that is tied by the British tyers? I just bought a magazine from England, Fly Fishing and Fly Tying, I think its called and it had this pattern listed. Last Edited By: Light Cahill 05/21/2008 21:18. Edited 1 time.
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gatroutboy		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 71 05/21/2008 22:36	I like to use klinkhammer style emerger when the hatch is just getting going, and my go to dun is a parachute quill body with a dirty yellow body and sulphur orange thorax....light ginger hackle. Rich
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Horton Creek	Sulphur	#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 539 05/24/2008 21:41	I think Mike's fly would work quite well on PA streams if as he suggested you shaded the body towards orange versus pale yellow. I like the idea of the "hotspot" and agree if you look close at sulphurs there is a more pronounced color spot near the tail section, plus it is no more difficult to tie. Sometimes it is those slight variations that make all the difference when it comes to those educated catch and release trout, at least for one season anyway and then its time to find a another subtley different pattern. HC
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