CDC Mayfly Emerger

recipe

hook: dry fly hook 10-18

thread: uni 8/0 to match

tail: hungarian partridge

abdomen: turkey quill, color to suit mayfly

thorax: dry fly dubbing to match

legs: hungarian partridge

wing: CDC feather, color to match

 

great supsurface fly. tippet can be greased to keep fly high in the film and best used during a blizzard hatch. photograph shows Green Drake emerger