Western Green Drake Emerger With Trailing Shuck

Title:

Price:

$2.75

Product Category:

Mayflies

SKU:

M501ETS-10

The Western Green Drake is one of the largest mayflies found in the West providing one of the greatest hatches in the West. They can be found in almost all Western streams and the hatch times vary depending on the elevations. The nymphs that live in fast water will migrate to the slower moving water nearby while those that live in the medium flowing areas of a stream will remain in that water to hatch. The hatch usually lasts a week to two weeks on any one stream. Normally the Western Green Drake hatch takes place in the middle of the day and usually lasts for only about two hours.

Both the dodsi and grandis species of nymphs swim to the surface to emerge from their
nymphal shuck. However in some cases they may emerge beneath the surface. This takes place in the slower moving areas of water adjacent to fast or moderate flowing water. Some say that they shed their nymphal shucks about midway between the bottom and the surface resulting in more cripples than with most other mayflies. The Green Drake Emerger resembles the dun because the antron shuck is attached to the tail which imitates the nymphal shuck still attached to the tail of the dun.

Presentation:

Use a slightly weighted nymph fly with an up and across on the swing type of presentation to imitate the nymph swimming to the surface. Then you should allow it to drift drag free in the surface skim. When in a stream with pocket water, fish the slower water on the outside edges of fast water current seams and the inside of pockets behind boulders. Another area to fish is the ends of long pools.

In smooth flowing water look for trout feeding in the surface skim and target them with an upstream presentation most of the time. However, at times a down and across presentation will be productive depending on the conditions of the water at the time.

In some smooth water streams, with tricky currents, it may not be easy to get the fly to drift drag free. Under these conditions, it would be advisable to keep the casts as short as possible.