A nice day staying at home out of the thunderstorms and tying a few flies. Picutured here is a new one I am using modelled off one that Chris from Judges Pool motel gave me last year in a certain spot for a certain situation that was kicking butt! I have altered the pattern by using silver tinsel for ribbing, black squirrel tail for the tail - cerci, a couple of wraps of lead for weight dyed black hare guard hair for dubbing instead of rabbit fur and rubber legs. The fly has a pearl mylar wing case and is tyed on size 10 hooks - I use Kamasan 175 10’s. The fly has been bringing more than its share of fish in amongst some time tested and tried patterns so it is cerainly worth tying a few. What the trout are taking them for I can only speculate, maybe black stoneflys - Austroperla Cyrene - or maybe though it doesn’t look much like them, Colobriscus Humerlaris mayfly nymphs. It may just be that to a trout it just looks insecty and tasty with plenty of supernormal factors on the fly - exagerated insect features.

Tongariro Report

Barometer: Steady low

Cloud/Wind: Windy, cloudy, some heavy downpours and thunder storms today

Water Temperature:

River Conditions: Dirty

Recommended Flies: The one pictured and described here