BWO's in size 18's.

[Mrtrout]

Anyone care to show what they tie to match the hatch of these please.
I need some badly.
Thanks S.

[JeffR]

Ahem, Buzz and Bread and Butter! ....or a para adams would do it surely?

[Mrtrout]

Originally Posted by JeffR

Ahem, Buzz and Bread and Butter! ....or a para adams would do it surely?

Not tonight Jeff, they were in a real picky mood.
I spent at least 30 mins on two fish, and several flies, got one refusal, they were still rising when I declared, at least I didn't put them down.
Mark does a #18 CDC number, but could I find one tonight!!
Just need an easy SBS to set me off.
S.

[devon flyfisher]

I had the same problem recently, but i dispensed with the para adams and used an emerger type pattern, natural cdc wing with a sparse medium blue dun hackle, it worked for me, buts that the joy, figuring out how to out wit them.
cheers
Richard

[Mrtrout]

Originally Posted by devon flyfisher

I had the same problem recently, but i dispensed with the para adams and used an emerger type pattern, natural cdc wing with a sparse medium blue dun hackle, it worked for me, buts that the joy, figuring out how to out wit them.
cheers
Richard

Joy was not the word that sprang to mind tonight Richard, I daren't tell you what words did.
It was one of those times when you wish you had every flybox you own with you, I know I have some traditional pattern BWO's somewhere.
Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.
Steven.

[darwin]

Better-Winged Olives - Making a classic tried-n-true fly one step better - Global FlyFisher
Tying the Blue Wing Olive (BWO)

[richardw]

Originally Posted by mrtrout

Anyone care to show what they tie to match the hatch of these please.
I need some badly.
Thanks S.

Blue Winged Olives are rather bigger than size 18 hooks. They must have been some other type of fly.

A Blue Winged Olive is usually around 14 or a 16 (old 15 would be good).

Have you tried a Grey Duster with a tail in size 18 to match the flies you had on the water?

richard

[LDO]

Funny, but I am increasingly finding that an 18 bwo is the 'masterfly' for all wild Scottish river trout; in everthing but a hatch of bwo's where it fails like everything else! Being lazy I generally keep using the same fly for everything until it fails and a batch of 18 bwo's have been on the end of my line since late May last year.

[Mrtrout]

Originally Posted by darwin

Better-Winged Olives - Making a classic tried-n-true fly one step better - Global FlyFisher
Tying the Blue Wing Olive (BWO)

Thanks for that darwin.

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Originally Posted by richardw

Blue Winged Olives are rather bigger than size 18 hooks. They must have been some other type of fly.

A Blue Winged Olive is usually around 14 or a 16 (old 15 would be good).

Have you tried a Grey Duster with a tail in size 18 to match the flies you had on the water?

richard

No definitely BWO's Richard, but very small tonight for some reason.
S.

[la_jolla1]

The streams I used to fish in New Jersey had small BWO. Here is an example of a simple pattern for the dun and the emerger, tied on Mustad 98480 #18 and #20
Highly overfished public water, so the fish were quite picky. These patterns were taught to me by by NJ fishing buddy Mark Rosenbach.

Dun
Thread: Uni gray 8
Tail: microfibetts, split
Abdomen: synthetic olive microdubbing
Hackle: blue dun

Emerger
Short shuck rather than tail
micro dubbing olive
wing: blue gray antron looped or cdc looped works well