BWO Improved Sparkle Dun

Recipe:
Hook: 2X-short emerger hook (here, a Dai-Riki 125), size 18.
Thread: UTC 140 Denier, olive.
Wing: Dun-colored deer hair, cleaned and stacked.
Tail/Wing: Straight Zelon, midge gray.
Thorax/legs: Australian possum dubbing, dark olive.

Material Source:

#flyfishing #trout #dryfly

[charlesging]

Fairly new tier here - thanks for all the the great videos! I had tied some of these a few months back and got the opportunity to clean up during a hatch (in CO) last night. This pattern is deadly!

[christopherorman]

Mathews ties it differently to ensure the wing stands up properly. After tying in the deer hair, he then props the deer hair up using wraps through the deer hair. He separates the wing into threes and passes the thread through the deer hair and then creates a small dam on the front. After this, he ties in the zelon tail and wing, finishes the body, and then dubs around the wing with some superfine dubbing. Mathews tells a story about how one night he tied them much as shown here to time them faster, and in the morning almost all of the wings were facing forward in some way, somewhat over the eye. While they probably worked -- I'm reminded of Ed Engle who calls all of his failed flies cripples -- Mathews apparently didn't find them as effective. If you chat with Mathews too, he puts a huge, huge emphasis on the deer hair used. You need hair that is small and yet still hollow. The good stuff, if you will, barely spins. I guess it shows the sparkle dun, while effective and apparently simple, can be a fly with tons of nuance in the eyes of its creator.

[martinguitar]

hey man quick question, where do you get that UV resin you have with the tiny applicator and little pen-like UV light? Any help appreciated.

[Oldmanflyfishing]

I am a beginner, is this fly difficult for my level?

[t_man]

What's your three favorite winter flys mine are
1 size 22 parachute Adams
2 griffiths gnat
3 micro caddis larva actually

[coopdog]

So, if you can't find "midge gray", what color of z-lon would be closer? Light gray? Dun? Regular gray?

[t_man]

Tim will you be at the fly show Saturday cause we are going and if your not gonna we might go Sunday