The female isonychia is often a shade of brighter colored olive when first hatch. It will then darken up into the more well known colors of the iso. With this little piece of knowledge comes more takes, because if females are hatching, your gonna be pressed to be putting up numbers with a rusty or mahogany dun. Tossing this fly around has brought me some great luck when I see a slate drake emerge.
Materials
Hook- Daiichi 1180 #12
Thread- Olive 8/0
Tail- chartreuse dyed grizzly hackle fibers
Body- Pale evening dun and brown dry fly dubbin blended
Post- 4 dun cdc feathers
Hackle- MP cdc dirty yellow.
Very cool
ReplyDeleteThanks, Its about one of few cdc flies i tie and fish. Just dont care for the stuff on stream. Looks great on flies though.
DeleteCDC is a wonderful material to use. I only tie but one fly using it "CDC Caddis"
ReplyDeleteIt is a great material to tie with for sure. I like a cdc caddis as well.
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