Posted on January 14 2020
This month's fly is the Emergent Mosquito. This pattern was created by Randall Kaufmann and is taught in his book the American Nymph Fly Tying Manual. I started using it many years ago and quickly found it's worth a space in my fly box. During the early summer when the Mosquitos are at their peak is when you want to be prepared to use this fly. The first time I tried it it was one of those times when the fish where sipping something off the surface. It was a warm morning with lots of black-flies and mosquito's in the air. I added it to the back of a Hornberg as a dropper and watched it bounce along the current. We were guiding a couple of fisherman on the Kennebago. I was with a sport at the head of a large pool while Lou was with the other in the tail. Every time my sport would hook a fish Lou would glance up at the fun we where having. After about the third jumping salmon he wandered up to asked what we where using. I think I gave him my last one and he wandered back to his fisherman with the new secret fly.
Hook - Mustad 3906b size 18-20
Thread - 16/0 black
Tail - two moose hair fibers
Body - stripped peacock herl
Thorax - un-stripped section of peacock herl
Wing - grizzly hackle tips
I would like to purchase two of these. And also some pink ones …and yellow.